EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM POTTERY HIPPOPOTAMUS Standing on an integral, rectangular, sledge-like base, with long snout, small ears, small tall, and well defined muscular detail along the back. Cf. P. Lacovara, ‘New Date for an Old Hippopotamus’, JMFAB, vol 4, 1992. Ca. 2061-1784 BC L. 4 3/8 in (11 cm.); H. 3 1/4 in (8.1 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2003, no. 194 BLQ309 $4,750 Sales
Cf. A.S. Walker, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Mainz, 1996, fig.III, 209, p.136. For discussion of pottery hippopotami see B. Bothmer, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1948, vol. XLVI, no. 265, pp. 64-69. A. Tony-Révillon, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Egypt 50, 1950, pp.48-71

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