Lot no. 104
THREE DECORATIVE WOODEN FRIEZES Egyptian art, Greco-Roman period Three openwork panels from two different coffins. The largest, corresponding to a side panel, is virtually complete and features a frieze of kneeling anthropomorphic divinities, alternately hawk-headed and dog-headed, representing the Souls of Pé and Nekhen in acclamation. The two smaller ones, probably elements of heads and feet, represent a solar boat carrying a child-god emerging from a lotus flower, symbolising the rising sun, followed by two baboons towing the boat. The second depicts a boat with a disc, probably lunar, decorated with a baboon representing the god Thoth, preceded by two female figures. Missing, minor restorations and a few repaints. Size (largest): 28.6 x 154.4 cm Size (smallest): 13,8 x 44,5cm & 14 x 46 cm Provenance: Former Belgian private collection C.H. Collection, Chicago Royal-Athena Galleries, New York Christian Levett Collection, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2008 Exhibitions: Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011-August 2023 Bibliography: J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2002, vol. XIII, pp. 66-67, fig. 181 P. Clayton, "Ancient Egypt" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 53, fig. 40-42 Three Egyptian wood decorative elements, Greco-Roman Period
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75008 Paris - France
11/18/2025
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