Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

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Property from a European Private Collection

An Egyptian Bronze Figure of the Goddess Mut, 25th/early 26th Dynasty, circa 750-600 B.C.

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Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the standing goddess wearing a vulture headdress surmounted by double crown and uraeus.

Height 5 1/4 inches (13.3 cm.) 

Art market, Netherlands 

Christie’s, London, July 13th, 1983, no. 474 (part), illus.

Private collection U.H., Rheinland

Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Auction 283, December 15th, 2021, no. 250, illus.

acquired from the above, then by descent to the current owner

Mut was a divine mother goddess, who along with Amun and Khonsu formed the Theban triad. Mut is often depicted wearing the pschent (the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt), along with vulture imagery, symbolizing maternal protection. 

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