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BRONZE MANGOSTE OR ICHNEUMON
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BRONZE MANGOSTE OR ICHNEUMON
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
BRONZE MANGOSTE OR ICHNEUMON
Egyptian art, Late Period, 664–332 BC
Votive statuette depicting an Egyptian mongoose or ichneumon, standing on a rectangular plinth, with a long tail curved at the tip; the details of the face, ears and coat are finely rendered; there is a loop on the back. Beneath the base, there is a tenon indicating that the object was designed to be set into a base.
Dimensions: 4.3 x 16.5 cm
Provenance: Galerie Arete, Zurich
Formerly in the collection of Leo Mildenberg (1913–2001)
His sale, Christie’s, ‘A Peaceable Kingdom: The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals’, London, 26–27 October 2004: lot 132 (ill.)
Hornsby and Nugée, London
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2011
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA764)
Bibliography: Christie’s, *A Peaceable Kingdom*, *The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals*, London, 26–27 October 2004, lot 132
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 37, 88 and on the cover
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 16, fig. 13 and p. 78
An Egyptian bronze figure of a mongoose or ichneumon,
Late Period, 664–332 BC.
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