Lotto 1804 - S19 La collezione Dr. med. Sylvia Legrain - mercoledì, 20. settembre 2023, 10h00
FIGURE OF A STANDING WOMAN, PROBABLY A QUEEN
- Formerly private collection of Jan van der Werff (1901-1988), Delft, acquired mid-20th century.
- Private collection of Marco van der Werff (with written confirmation).
- Sotheby's New York, 8 December 2011, Lot No. 36.
- Royal Athena Gallery, New York, before 7 February 2018.
For related statues from the Middle Ptolemaic and early Roman periods, see S. Albersmeier, Untersuchungen zu den Frauenstatuen des ptolemäischen Aegypten, Mainz am Rhein, 2002, figs. 68a/69a (Cleopatra of Egypt, Age of the Ptolemies, Brooklyn, 1988, Cat. No. 28), 71a-b, and 74a-d, statues in Cairo, Brussels, Paris, and Cairo.
A relief from a tomb at Sakkara (Cambridge No. 5/1909), dated to the 30th Dynasty, shows a goddess tending the tomb owner and wearing a wig that could be a prototype for the present wig.
CHF 70 000 / 100 000 | (€ 72 160 / 103 090)
Venduto per CHF 143 750 (incl. premio dell'acquirente)
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