About the lot N° 65
Title : A Granite Head Of A King
Size : height 11 1/2 in. 29.2 cm, height of face 4 1/2 in. 11.4 cm.Provenance : Theodore Bachman, Scarborough, New YorkChristie's, New York, December 5th, 1979, no. 277, illus.Literature : Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 20th, 1967, no. 83, illus.Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, 1981, p. 6, illus.Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee, and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings VIII. Objects of Provenance not known, Oxford, 1999, no. 800-942-750Notes : The hands on each side of the headcloth at the back are probably those of the god Amun seated behind the king, for related examples compare a group of Amun and Ramesses II in Cairo, inv. no. 42141, and a group of Amun and Sety I in the Louvre, inv. no. A.130 (see Vandier, La statuaire égyptienne, p. 419, pl. CXXXV, 2, and Ramsès le Grand, no. XXVIII, for the Cairo statue, and H. Sourouzian, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, vol. 49, 1993, pl. 49d, for the Louvre example).Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art
Sale date : 08 Dec 2004
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