PTOLEMAIC PERIOD-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 300 B.C.-300 A.D.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FUNERARY BED LEG
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 300 B.C.-300 A.D.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936), Blanchard’s Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925), founder of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, acquired from the above in 1906.
Property of the Toledo Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1993, lot 88.
U.S. private collection, acquired from the above.
Antiquities, Bonham's, London, 1 May 2008, lot 3.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2009 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XX, no. 194).
Acquired by the current owner form the above, 2010.

Literature

Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Brought Together and Presented to the Toledo Museum of Art, 1906, p. 36, no. 230.
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World: The Levett Bestiary, Mougins, 2014, pp. 28, 85.
C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique: Le bestiaire Levett, Mougins, 2016, p. 26, fig. 22, p. 76.

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA638).

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Lot Essay

Many other examples of similar Egyptian furniture have survived. In particular, the entire funerary bed of Herty, dating to the Roman period, cf. Royal Ontario Museum Toronto inv. no. 910.27. This was discussed extensively in W. Needler, An Egyptian Funerary Bed of the Roman Period in the Royal Ontario Museum, Occasional Paper 6, Toronto, 1963. Another example can be found in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, acc. no. 910.37.9B. Other wooden examples are in Liverpool, Birmingham, and Worcester (MA, USA). A faience example in similar style in the Metropolitan Museum (1977.170) is given a date in the 4th century B.C.

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