AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED LIMESTONE ICHNEUMON ON A SHRINE
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED LIMESTONE ICHNEUMON ON A SHRINE

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED LIMESTONE ICHNEUMON ON A SHRINE
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
The animal with traces of black detailed eyes and painted along the back, standing on a cavetto-corniced rectangular shrine base, a small opening at the back closed with a plug; and an Egyptian bronze ichneumon on a shrine, circa 4th-1st Century B.C., 2½ in. (6.4cm.)
4½ x 1½ in. (11.5 x 3.8cm.) (2)
Provenance
Baron Empain collection (1852-1929), France.

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