Lot 1827
Attractive Bronze of Isis and Horus. Late Dynastic Egypt or Ptolemaic Period, c. 500-100 BC. The goddess seated, her feet on squarish base. She wears a uraeus cap surmounted by the Crown of Hathor and offers her breast to the child Horus held on her lap. The sculpted and chased details careful and attractive. Height, with tenon: 6-3/4"; on custom walnut base. Modest restoration to one tip of horn and edge of feet. Brown in color, the metal is sound and the figure is well-delineated.
Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000.
Ex Superior Auction (6-2/3-98), lot 6020.
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| Realized $3,105 |
