Sold for $625

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Lot Description

An Egyptian Faience Monkey

Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.

Height 2 inches (5.3 cm).

Property from an Important Midwestern Scholar

Provenance:
Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain (1852-1929), France, acquired in the early 1900s in Heliopolis; thence by descent to his grandson, Édouard-Jean Empain, 3rd Baron Empain (1937-2018).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.

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