AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE 'BLUE CROWN' WITH LOCK OF YOUTH

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 323-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE 'BLUE CROWN' WITH LOCK OF YOUTH
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 323-30 B.C.
2 7/8 in. (7.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Hewett Collection, London, 1958.
Benjamin Sonnenberg collection, New York.
The Benjamin Sonnenberg Collection; Sotheby’s, New York, 5-9 June 1979, lot 1064.
Antiquities; Sotheby’s, New York, 30 May 1986, lot 236.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.

Exhibited

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
S. Schoske and D. Wildung, Gott und Götter im alten Ägypten, Mainz, 1993, p.52, no. 33.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 216, no. R-699.

Elaborate statues of deities were often decorated with separately-made parts, including crowns, which may have possibly been removed or swapped at different religious ceremonies and rituals. This 'Blue Crown', or khepresh, most likely comes from a large representation of the child Horus, on the basis of the side-lock of youth, an attribute of the god.

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