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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2011 Jun 04 @ 09:00UTC-6 : CST/MDT
The bust from the 18th dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III (circa 1388-1350 B.C.) or possibly shortly after. The man depicted was most likely a high official. He is wearing a layered or double wig (also called bipartite wig) which is a good criterion for dating the bust. These wigs were very popular, almost used as a rule, during the reign of Amenhotep III (Kozloff, p. 216-218). The bust is made of quartzite (a metamorphic rock, formed of what originally was sandstone). The Egyptians used to call this material biat (biA.t), meaning "wonderful stone" (Hannig, p. 246b). Amenhotep III had a strong preference for quartzite. On a stela, found behind the so-called Colossi of Memnon in his mortuary temple, the king speaks about the monuments which he made out of this material, coming from the "mountain of quartzite" (Urk. IV, 1672, 17). Many statues from the temple, including the colossi, are indeed made of quartzite. The king appointed the architect and high official Amenhotep, the son of Hapu, as overseer of the work of quarrying quartzite. This man is often depicted as a scribe, sitting with his legs crossed and holding a papyrus on his lap, on which he is writing. In the text on one of those papyri (Egyptian Museum Cairo, inv. JE 44861, Kozloff p. 212-213) he tells us: "The king appointed me as overseer of the works in the mountain of quartzite" (Urk. IV, 1833, 1). For more information of the use of quartzite during the reign of Amenhotep III see Kozloff, p. 113-116, who remarks that the Egyptian sculptors have never shown their abilities as artists better than when they were working with quartzite. For other three dimensionally sculptured bipartite wigs, all from the same period, see for example the statues of Amenhotep, the son of Hapu (Egyptian Museum Cairo, inv. 459, Lange – Hirmer, fig. 158; inv. JE 44861, Kozloff p. 212-213, no. 44), the statue of Minemheb (Berman, p. 233-235, no. 168; Kozloff, p. 203-204, no. 40), the scribe Neferrenpet (Louvre E 14241, Kozloff, p. 200-201, no. 38), the scribe Nebmertouf (Louvre E 11154, Kozloff, p. 206-207, no. 41), the statue of Anen (Museo Antichità Egizie, Torino, Italy, inv. 5484, Kozloff, p. 210-211, no. 43), the statue of Nebsen (Brooklyn Museum New York, inv. 40.523, Kozloff p. 216-218, no 47), the block statue of Yii (Brooklyn Museum New York, inv. 66.174.1, Fazzini, p. 86-87, no. 71a-b) or a slightly later statue with the name of Amenhotep IV on his right arm (Brooklyn Museum New York, inv. 69.45, Fazzini, p. 80, no. 61). For wall reliefs of figures with such a wig see for example the Theban tombs of Ramose (TT 55) (Lange – Hirmer, figs. 172-5, 177-8) and Khaemhat (TT57) (ibid, fig. 179). Dimensions: Height 9.2 cm without mount (or 15 cm including mount), maximum width 8.8 cm. Provenance: Estate of Maurice Nahman, sold at auction in Paris in June 1953 (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines. Succession de Mr. Maurice Nahman), lot 10; then French private collection; then Christie's London, sale 7376 of 25 Apr 2007, lot 87; then Dutch private collection.
Maurice Nahman (1868-1948) was a collector and dealer of antiquities. He was the head cashier at the bank of Crédit Foncier d'Égypte in Cairo and also became one of the principal Egyptian antiquities dealers. Jean Capart called him "the most important dealer of Egyptian antiquities in the world" and "a top-class antiquities dealer". He had a large gallery attached to his house in Cairo. Nahman supplied many quality objects to international museums and private collections; the database of the British Museum alone lists almost 600 objects as coming from him. For at least half a century he handled so many antiquities that his expertise was enormous. Literature: Arielle P. Kozloff – Betsy M. Bryan – Lawrence M. Berman – Elisabeth Delange, Amenophis III. Le Pharaon Soleil (Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993); Kurt Lange - Max Hirmer, Ägypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden (München, Hirmer Verlag, 1997); Lawrence M. Berman, The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Egyptian Art (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999); Richard A. Fazzini, Images for Eternity: Egyptian Art from Berkeley and Brooklyn (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and The Brooklyn Museum, 1975); Rainer Hannig, Die Sprache der Pharaonen: Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch – Deutsch (2800–950 v. Chr.) (Mainz am Rhein, Von Zabern, 1995). there is a reserve price on this lot
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