PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
An Egyptian Limestone Sculptor's Model or Votive Relief, Early Ptolemaic Period, 305-200 B.C.
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
An Egyptian Limestone Sculptor's Model or Votive Relief, Early Ptolemaic Period, 305-200 B.C.
carved on one side in low relief with the head of a king facing right and wearing the Blue Crown with ureaus and broad collar with beaded perimeter, and on the other side in sunk relief with the head of a lion facing left.
8 by 5.2 by 1.9 cm, 3⅛ by 2 by ¾ in.
Françoise Schlumberger-Primat (1917-1998), Château de Grandchamp, Calvados, France, acquired in the 1960s or earlier;
by descent to the present owner.
