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Lot 110

A Romano-Egyptian bronze Isis Lactans

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Romano-Egyptian bronze Isis Lactans
Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.
The goddess depicted seated on a throne with stepped base, once nursing Horus, now missing, her right hand held to her left breast, her left cradling the head of the child, wearing a long pleated chiton and enveloped in a characteristic fringed mantle, bound in an 'Isis' knot between the breasts, a headdress of a solar disc between cow's horns and surmounted by plumes atop her wavy hair, styled in corkscrew 'Libyan' curls falling onto her back, 12cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dr J. Dénier collection.
Mr A. collection, Paris, acquired prior to 1996.

Published:
F. Antonovich, Les Métamorphoses Divines d'Alexandre, Paris, 1996, p. 104.

Cf. two larger examples of this subject dating to the same period, both in serpentine, at the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, acc. no. ÄS4201, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, acc. no. 79.AA.218.

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