Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

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Property from a Midwestern Private Collection

An Egyptian Wood Figure of Anubis, Late Period, 712-30 B.C.

Live auction begins on:

February 6, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Bid

11,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Midwestern Private Collection


An Egyptian Wood Figure of Anubis, Late Period, 712-30 B.C.

the God of the Dead represented as a jackal couchant, with an elongated tail and his long ears erect, remains of original black polychrome and gesso throughout. 


Length: 13 ¼ in.; 33.7 cm

probably Galerie Maspero, Paris, as “Maspero” is noted on the inventory card from the Komor photographic archive

Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York (inv. no. D800)

acquired by the current owner from the above, September 2nd, 1971

In Egyptian mythology, Anubis is the deity associated with funerary rites and is depicted as a standing or couchant jackal. His various roles included ushering deceased souls in the afterlife, acting as an divine embalmer, and attending the “Weighing of the Heart” ceremony, where a soul was deemed worthy to enter the afterlife (or not.) For a similar example in the Brooklyn Museum, see accession no. 37.1478Ea-b (https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/de-DE/objects/4155).

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