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Lot 118*

An Egyptian limestone baboon

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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An Egyptian limestone baboon
New Kingdom, circa 1550-1065 B.C.
Carved in the round, depicting the god Thoth, seated on a plinth, his tail curling around the right side, with hands on the knees, with incised lines for the thick fur around its upper body, the long muzzle with small eyes, a pierced hole to the top of the head for a headdress, now missing, pierced horizontally through the torso, 6.3cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection, acquired on 07 March 2007.
With Superior Gallery, Los Angeles, 30 January 1976, no. 275.
Philip Mitry Collection, formed in Egypt before the early 1950s.

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