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SET OF THREE POLYCHROME WOODEN CALVES
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SET OF THREE POLYCHROME WOODEN CALVES
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
Voluntary lot
Description
SET OF THREE POLYCHROME WOODEN CALVES
Probably New Kingdom
A symbolic offering depicting three calves, their legs bound, gilded and painted.
Maximum height: 8.6 cm
Provenance: Private collection, acquired from an antiquarian in the south of France, 1991
Bonhams, London, 15 October 2008: lot 103 (ill.)
Christian Rizzo Collection
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, received as a gift in 2011
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA749)
Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities, London, 2008, lot 103
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 28, fig. 24 and p. 76
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 85
Three Egyptian wooden models of bound calves,
Probably New Kingdom
See original version (French)
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