75
An Egyptian Painted Wood Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
Height 19 1/2 inches.
Estimate: $3,000-$5,000
Sold
$30,000
Live Auction
Antiquities & Ancient Art
Size
Height 19 1/2 inches.
Description
An Egyptian Painted Wood Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, Circa 664-525 B.C.
Height 19 1/2 inches.
Property from an Important Midwestern Collector
Condition
Chips and small paint losses with exposed gesso on the plume, top of head, and back. Exposed wood on proper left shoulder. A vertical crack through the front torso, with some wood losses at the seam. Original trace minerals in paint detectable. Has been examined under UV light and 10 x loupe.
Provenance
Provenance:
Towry White Collection.
Fitzwilliam Museum Collection.
Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 December 1969, Lot 75.
Leonard Sheriff Collection, New York; thence by decent.
Note:
Figures of the syncretistic deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris were popular tomb furnishings from the end of the New Kingdom through the Ptolemaic era. A common occurrence in later Egyptian religious liturgy, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris was a conflation of three separate deities, all of whom were identified with fertility and regeneration as well as death and burial.