This is the rating and price for An Egyptian Black Steatite Sphinx Finial, 1700
Description : * AN EGYPTIAN BLACK STEATITE SPHINX FINIAL
MIDDLE KINGDOM, CIRCA 1700 B.C.
In the form of a couchant sphinx with forepaws outstretched, wearing
a wig with uraeus, surmounting a tall hollow plinth decorated with
incised concentric circles and cross-hatching, 3.8cm high
Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection, acquired in 2011.
John Rilling Collection, California, 1970s.
Philip Mitry Collection, formed in Egypt before the early 1950s. Mitry
was the owner of the Egypt-American Bookstore in Cairo and sold
books and antiquities. He emigrated to the USA in the early 1950s and
brought a large collection with him. He settled in Northern California. In 1977-78 he sold his antiquities to Joel Malter and Superior Gallery in
Los Angeles.
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