This is the rating and price for AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A MAN LATE 5TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2350-2290 B.C. standing, with his left leg advanced, on a rectangular base
Description : with slightly tapering back pillar, his arms held against his sides, his hands clasping emblematic staves, the legs and torso powerfully modelled, wearing a short smooth kilt, knotted belt with tab drawn up beside the navel and short layered wig of notched curls, the remains of red pigment on the body, yellow on the flap of the kilt, blue and turquoise on the knot and tab, and black on the wig, back pillar, base and negative spaces between arms and legs, 80.3 cm. (31 5/8 in.) Provenance: From the serdab of Wery and Mety at Giza (G2415) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sotheby's, New York, Antiquities Sale, 14th December 1978, lot 304 Literature: William Stevenson Smith, A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom, Oxford, 1946, p. 74, G2415(3) For other striding male figures of the late Old Kingdom, cf. Cyril Aldred, Old Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt, London, 1949, no. 47; Staatliche Sammlung Agyptisher Kunst, Munich, 1976, p.52 (as 1600); Agyptische Kunst aus dem Brooklyn Museum, catalogue of the exhibition at the Agyptisches Museum, Berlin, 1976, no. 16.
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About the lot N° 316 Title : AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A MAN LATE 5TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2350-2290 B.C. standing, with his left leg advanced, on a rectangular base Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, USIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : Antiquities Sale date : 09 Dec 1993It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale
