A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE FIGURES, each of an seated vestal figure wearing the nemes headdress kneeling astride a naos shrine, on a plinth with the seated sebek with crocodile heads to the sides and hathor masks to the front, possibly English and Regency

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE FIGURES, each of an seated vestal figure wearing the nemes headdress kneeling astride a naos shrine, on a plinth with the seated sebek with crocodile heads to the sides and hathor masks to the front, possibly English and Regency
15¾in. (40cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The seated figures derive from figures from antiquity that were depicted before a portable shrine to Osiris, such as the basalt figure of Hekatefnacht that had belonged to Cardinal Mazarin and which was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 3 July 1961, lot 101