Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022

Lot 5

An Egyptian bronze figure of Isis

Estimate £5,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £3000

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Description

An Egyptian bronze figure of Isis

Late Period, circa 664 - 332 BC

seated, wearing the horned solar disc and a finely engraved tripartite wig including two circle and line symbols, with a cobra headdress, her right hand to her left breast and the left arm previously supporting the the infant Horus,

22.5cm high, on a wood pedestal base. (3)

Provenance

Dr E. Lionel Pavlo Collection, USA, 1906 - 1986.

Thence by descent.