Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

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Property from an English Private Collection

An Egyptian Bronze Figure of a King, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.

Live auction begins on:

July 1, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

kneeling with his open extended hands held out before him, palms facing inwards, and wearing a kilt and tripartite wig with pleated lappets, queue, and uraeus.

 

Height from modern base 3.3 inches (8.5 cm.) 

English art market, early 20th Century (based on white marble stand with fragmentary auction catalogue entry pasted to the underside and back)

Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Dingwall (1869–1946) DSO

by descent to the present owner

The present figure was probably once part of a group composition in which the king was facing a figure of a deity. For a comprehensive discussion of the type see M. Hill, Royal Bronze Statuary from Ancient Egypt: with Special Attention to the Kneeling Pose, 2004. For a typologically related example without tangs connecting the hands to the thighs see https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/objects/3798.

 

Although he focused primarily on collecting East Asian ceramics, Kenneth Dingwall also acquired antiquities, including Chinese, Pre-Columbian, and Egyptian. For a short biography see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG122843. 

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