Lot Essay
For sculptors' models with similar features see pls. 13-14 in Tomoum, The Sculptors' Models of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods; for royal heads depicted without uraei see pls. 18-19, op. cit.
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THE PROPERTY OF A CALIFORNIA COLLECTOR
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
DYNASTY XXX TO EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 380-250 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
DYNASTY XXX TO EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 380-250 B.C.
In the form of a bust of a pharaoh, wearing a nemes-headcloth, his idealized face with fleshy lips, a broad nose and almond-shaped eyes elongated at their inner and outer canthi
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
DYNASTY XXX TO EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 380-250 B.C.
In the form of a bust of a pharaoh, wearing a nemes-headcloth, his idealized face with fleshy lips, a broad nose and almond-shaped eyes elongated at their inner and outer canthi
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
Provenance
with Malter Galleries, Los Angeles, 1970s.
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