About the lot N° 8
Title : Egyptian Brown Quartzite Bust Of A Nobleman, Period : 1783.0
Provenance : Giovanni Dattari, Cairo. Antiquités Egyptiennes, Grecques et Romaines, Collections de feu M. Jean P. Lambros D'Athèns et de M. Giovanni Dattari du Caire, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 1912, lot 290. Jacob Hirsch. Antiquités Egyptiennes, Grecques et Romaines, Collection (première vente), Objets d'Art, Hotel Drouot, Paris, July 1921, lot 76. Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 12 April 2000, lot 87.Notes : EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALAN M. MAY THE 'DATTARI' BUST For the pose compare the statue of a squatting man in the Brooklyn Museum, also sculpted of brown quartzite and depicted wearing a similar, although rippled, wig or headdress, no. 16 in Spanel, Through Ancient Eyes: Egyptian Portraiture. For a smooth wig or headdress see the graywacke statuette, no. 46 in Bourriau, Pharaohs and Mortals, Egyptian Art in the Middle Kingdom. Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 11 Dec 2003
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