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Lot 273

An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus fish

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian bronze Oxyrhynchus fish
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
Wearing the horned solar disc with frontal uraeus, with incised details including scales and striations on the fins, the rims of the eyes inlaid with another metal, possibly silver, supported on an integral base, flanked by two further uraeii, 15cm long

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Provenance:
Max Willborg (1933-2001) collection, Stockholm.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 November 2001, lot 363.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

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