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Lot 120*

An Egyptian bronze situla

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

£4,000 - £6,000

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An Egyptian bronze situla
Ptolemaic Period, circa 304-30 B.C.
Cast with three registers, the upper depicting two solar barques, the middle register with a priest making an offering to a procession of deities, the lower showing Harpokrates with Hathor cows flanking a lotus, the pointed base in the form of a lotus flower, 19cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection.
With Superior Gallery, Los Angeles, 1981.
Philip Mitry Collection, acquired in Cairo and brought with him to the US in the late 1950s - early 1960s.

Exhibited:
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 1997-2010.
Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection: San Antonio Museum of Art, 1993-1996; Arizona State University Museum, 1993; San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, 1992.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985-1990.

Published:
G.D. Scott, III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 29a.

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