Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/526
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    586/748 (page 76)
    FOURTH DAY’S SALE. Thursday, June 29th, 1922. CARVED WOOD OBJECTS—continued. LOT : 598 A standing Figure of a Man with left leg advanced, dressed in short skirt to the knees, the wig short and round, he bears a scroll in the left hand, the right arm and foot missing, in dark wood, the skirt covered with stucco painted white; 16in. high; found at Meir; 11th to 12th Dynasty 599 A> stuffed Figure of a Woman, covered with cartonnage, the wig — and dress, which cOMmmences at the waist, painted blue, 16 7n. high, rare; also a standing Figure of a Man, nude, 84 in. high, in wood 2 600 <A standing carved wood Figure of a Man, the left foot advanced, 7, > draped in short loin-cloth, the point hanging down in front, the HOS wig painted black, the loin-cloth white; 144 in. high; found at Meir; 11th to 12th Dynasty 601 A carved wood Figure of a Man, with left leg advanced, the loin- cloth spreading out triangularly in front and reaching to the knees ; 2222. high; the loin-cloth painted white, the flesh in red ochre, and the close-fitting skull cap black ; ancient Empire 602 A standing Figure of a Man, with loin-cloth reaching to the knees and painted white, the flesh in red ochre, the wig black, the attitude suggests that the figure is that of a sailor from a large model boat, in wood; 144 in. high; found at Meir; 11th to 12th Dynasty 603 <A carved wood Figure of Isis, wearing the step crown ; 244 in. high, the feet missing ; 26th Dynasty or later 604 | A CARVED wooD HeEAD OF AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS or High /- — Official Lady, with large wig; 2¢%in. high; 12th Dynasty, - beautiful example of this period [Pl. XLI] ae