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Description : PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION height 11 7/16 in. 29 cm. kneeling on a rectangular base and holding a naos containing a standing figure of Osiris holding the crook and flail and wearing the atef-crown, and wearing a long wrap-around kilt with tab drawn up across the chest, and smooth rounded wig passing behind the ears and falling behind the prominent back pillar, his affable face with smiling mouth rounded at the corners, slightly upturned nose, and cosmetic lines in relief. PROVENANCE Alice Tully, New York (Christie's, New York, French Furniture, European Works of Art and Porcelain from the Collection of Alice Tully, October 26th-28th, 1994, no. 43, illus.) NOTE For related examples see L. Borchardt, Statuen und Statuetten von Königen und Privatleuten in Museum von Kairo, part 3, Berlin, 1930, pp. 11-12, CG 663, Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, pp. 70-71, no. 59, pl. 56, figs. 138-139 (dated about 525-500 B.C., 27th Dynasty), and Sotheby's, London, July 10th-11th, 1989, no. 113. Alice Tully (1902-1993), known as a major benefactor to the arts in general and to music in particular, gave the city of New York the concert hall which bears her name at Lincoln Center and sponsored concert series at the Pierpont Morgan Library and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was herself a trained opera singer and occasionally performed in her early years. Her work as a benefactor began in earnest in 1958 when she inherited the estate of her grandfather, William Houghton, founder of the Corning Glass Works. Her art collection spanned all periods and categories. Her interest in Egyptian antiquities may have stemmed in part from the excavations carried out by her amateur archaeologist brother-in-law John Dimick in the Nile Valley at Memphis (see Irwin S. Scherzer, Miss Alice Tully, in Christie's, op. cit., p. 15). For a recent account of her life as a music patron see Albert Fuller, Alice Tully: An Intimate Portrait, Urbana, Ill., 1999.
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