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Statuette depicting Isis breastfeeding Horus and wearing a sun disk crown Attractive reddish patina Bronze 15 cm Late Period Egypt Provenance: Henri Collection in Liège Years 70-80

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Statuette depicting Isis breastfeeding Horus and wearing a sun disk crown Attractive reddish patina Bronze 15 cm Late Period Egypt Provenance: Henri Collection in Liège Years 70-80

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Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Bronze statuette of Isis with the boy Horus. Late period, 664 - 332 B.C. H 13cm. Fully cast. Group of figures of the seated Isis with the boy Horus on her lap. The goddess wears a three-part wig and the headdress of Hathor with cow horns and sun disk, clutching her left breast with her right hand. Under her feet is a rectangular plinth. The depiction of Isis as a nursing mother ('Isis Lactans') was particularly widespread in the late period. Corroded surface. Provenance: ex Gorny & Mosch, auction 300, 12.12.2023, lot 359; ex Collin du Bocage Paris, auction 11.06.2014, lot 22.

Estim. 480 - 600 EUR

Bronze statuette of Isis with Horus boy, so-called Isis Lactans. Late period, 664 - 332 BC. H 11.2 cm and with base 13.1 cm. Fully cast. Seated Isis with Hathor crown consisting of cow horns and sun disk as well as uraeus serpent gives the Horus boy with side plait on her lap the chest, under Isis' feet a slightly trapezoidal plinth. Dark green patina, tips of the horns broken, mounted on a marble base. Provenance: Ex collection Dr. Karl von Seeger, acquired before 1970.

Estim. 2 000 - 4 000 EUR

A varied collection of five bronze figures and utensils, Egypt, 3rd/1st C. B.C.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

TWO DIVINITIES (IN STYLE) Each depicted seated. One depicts the goddess Isis nursing her child Horus, wearing the hathoric crown. The other is also shown seated, wearing a striated tripartite wig and holding an object in her hands. Glazed terra-cotta. H. 11 and 12 cm (Break in the middle of the second) In the style of Egyptian Phoenician productions 2 Ancient Phoenician Style glazed terracotta seated goddess. Each shown seated. One represents the goddess Isis breastfeeding the child Horus, she is wearing the hathoric crown. As for the other, she is also presented seated and wearing a striated tripartite wig, her hands brought under her chest hold an object.Modern Provenance Private collection from the South of France, assembled in the 1980s

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