Live Auction 6454Michael Inchbald: A Legacy of Design
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE HEAD FROM A SARCOPHAGUS LID
Lot 104

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE HEAD FROM A SARCOPHAGUS LID

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.

Closed22 January 2014

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GBP 81,700

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE HEAD FROM A SARCOPHAGUS LID
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 332-30 B.C.
Highly-polished, wearing a plain tripartite wig, the face with finely-detailed ears, eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief, the full lips pursed into a slight smile, with rounded chin
16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) high

Purchased by Michael Inchbald from Spink & Son, London, in the early 1960s

Specialist note

For a similar head from an anthropoid sarcophagus, cf. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. no. 12.1511.