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Auction archive: Lot number 17

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$27,500
Auction archive: Lot number 17

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$27,500
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU
NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXII, 1307-712 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXII, 1307-712 B.C. Depicted lying on a rectangular bier with his hands on his thighs in an attitude of prayer, the bier raised up on two supports set back from each end, wearing a pleated kilt, a tunic with flaring sleeves, and a striated tripartite wig with banded lappets, his oval face with large lidded eyes beneath long brows in relief, his lips pursed into a smile, a hieroglyphic inscription down the front of the kilt, reading: "The Osiris, Pasunu, Justified," preserving traces of pigment including yellow for the garments, red for the fleshtones and black for the wig 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) long

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
9 December 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU
NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXII, 1307-712 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY STATUE FOR PASUNU NEW KINGDOM TO THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XIX-XXII, 1307-712 B.C. Depicted lying on a rectangular bier with his hands on his thighs in an attitude of prayer, the bier raised up on two supports set back from each end, wearing a pleated kilt, a tunic with flaring sleeves, and a striated tripartite wig with banded lappets, his oval face with large lidded eyes beneath long brows in relief, his lips pursed into a smile, a hieroglyphic inscription down the front of the kilt, reading: "The Osiris, Pasunu, Justified," preserving traces of pigment including yellow for the garments, red for the fleshtones and black for the wig 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) long

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 2010
Auction house:
Christie's
9 December 2010, New York, Rockefeller Center
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