This is the rating and price for Granite Figure Of Osiris, 1905.0
Description : PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK ESTATE
height 15 1/4 in. 38.7 cm.
standing against a tapering back pillar holding the crook and flail, and wearing a braided beard with beard-straps and the crown of Upper Egypt with fragmentary uraeus, his face with full outlined lips, indented philtrum, and long outlined eyebrows and cosmetic lines.
PROVENANCE
by family descent, recorded as an Antique Egyptian King fig. in a 1965 house inventory
NOTE
Cf. Baltimore, Egyptian Sculpture, no. 41, figs.89-90, a green schist seated figure of Osiris in the Walters Art Museum, which exhibits a similar placement of the beard and treatment of the eyebrows and cosmetic lines. Also see G. Daressy, Statues de divinités (Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, nos. 38001-39384), Cairo, 1905-1906, no. 38.237, pl. XIV.
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About the lot N° 76 Title : Granite Figure Of Osiris, Period : 1905.0 Size : height 15 1/4 in. 38.7 cm. Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, USIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : Antiquities Sale date : 06 Jun 2006It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale