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35 - SET OF THREE POLYCHROME WOODEN CALVES
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SET OF THREE POLYCHROME WOODEN CALVES Probably New Kingdom A symbolic offering depicting three calves, their legs bound, gilded, and painted. Maximum height: 8.6 cm Provenance: Private collection, acquired from an antiquities dealer in southern France, 1991 Bonhams, London, October 15, 2008: lot 103 (ill.) Christian Rizzo Collection Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, received as a gift in 2011 Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA749) Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities, London, 2008, lot 103 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 28, fig. 24, and p. 76 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 85 Three Egyptian wooden models of bound calves, Probably New Kingdom
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