Lot 22
An Egyptian Wood Head of Osiris
Sale 1273 - Antiquities & Ancient Art: Including Property from the Brummer Collection
Dec 5, 2023
10:00AM CT
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50,000
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$315,000
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Lot Description
An Egyptian Wood Head of Osiris
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.
Height 19 inches (48.26 cm).
Property from The Brummer Collection from Drs. John and Pat Laszlo, Atlanta, Georgia
Provenance:
Revd. Johann and Alice Lieder, Cairo, 1840s-1861.
Lord Tyssen-Amherst, England, 1861-1921.
Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of the Amherst Collection of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities, 13-17 June 1921, Lot 377.
Ernest Brummer (1891-1964), Paris & New York, 1921-1964.
Ella Bache Brummer, New York, 1964-1999; thence by descent to her nephew, Dr. John Laszlo, Atlanta, Georgia.
Published:
A holograph catalogue of the Lieder Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1861, no. 178.
For The Brummer Gallery Records at The Metropolitan Museum Cloisters Library and Archive, see Object Inventory Card Number: P181.
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