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This is the rating and price for Egyptian Black Granite Bust Of A Woman, 1991.0



Description : MIDDLE KINGDOM, DYNASTY XII, 1991-1783 B.C. Probably from a standing figure, her arms held at her sides, wearing a closely-fitted tunic with a thick hem positioned just below her breasts, the incised shoulder straps covering the outer edges of her breasts, her long wig with side lappets, the strands of hair incised, running horizontally above the forehead, behind her ears and vertically along the lappets, her broad triangular face with the large eyes set far apart, each convex and tilted slightly forward along their upper edges, with sculpted lids, the upper thicker than the lower, the modelled brows curving along the contours of the eyes, the straight lips only slightly wider than the base of the broad nose, the ears highly stylized and asymmetrical, the proper right higher than the left, the wig extending in back over her rounded shoulders to the uninscribed back pillar 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
Price: 26 400.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 25000 USD-35000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 10
Title : Egyptian Black Granite Bust Of A Woman, Period : 1991.0
Provenance : Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 14 June 1978, lot 236.with N. Wright, London, 1980.
Literature : G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, The Past Rediscovered: Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt, New Haven, 1983, no. 100, pp. 11 and 13.M.A. Hoffman, Exhibition catalogue, The First Egyptians, Columbia, 1988, no. 90, p. 91.G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 40, pp. 72-73.J. Hardin, Exhibition catalogue, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, St. Petersburg, 1996, no. 77.
Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Ancient Egyptian Art from the Harer Family Trust Collection
Sale date : 09 Dec 2005 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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