established 1942
THREE EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD SECTIONS FROM A FUNERARY SHRINE CANOPY

Reticulated with depicts of a kneeling falcon and ram headed gods beneath a frieze of stars; the end panels each with a solar barque one flanked by two females, a baboon in the disk; the other flanked by baboons.
Cf. W. Needler, An Egyptian Funerary Bed in the Royal Ontario Museum, Occasional Paper no. 6. Toronto, 1963; Y. Markowitz and P. Lacovara, ‘The Ferlini Treasure in Archaeological Perspective,’ JARCE xxxiii, 1996, pp. 11-19.

Very rare.

Ex collection of C.H., Chicago.
Ex Belgian private Collection.

Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 BC

L. of long panel: 60 in. (152.4 cm.)
Other panels: 17 1/2 x 5 3/8 in (44.5 x 13.7 cm)
17 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Art of the Ancient World, 2002, no. 181
HC0701
$75,000


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