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TERRACOTTA RELIEF
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TERRACOTTA RELIEF
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €2,500
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Description
TERRACOTTA RELIEF
Romano-Egyptian art, 1st century BC – 1st century AD
A fragmentary relief with moulded Egyptian-style decoration depicting a nude male figure resembling the god Bes, holding a lotus flower in each hand and flanked on either side by a diademed sphinx and a bearded sphinx wearing an uraeus.
Visible damage.
Dimensions: 21.7 x 35.5 cm
Provenance: Collection of Dr Sid Port, Santa Monica, 1976
Christie’s, New York, 8 June 2007: lot 149 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA127)
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, New York, 8 June 2007, lot 149
M. Eiland, ‘Materials and Manufacture’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 167, fig. 14
A Roman-Egyptian terracotta relief plaque,
1st century BC–1st century AD
See original version (French)
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