A fine Egyptian bronze standing figure of Osiris, c. 600 B.C.

A fine Egyptian bronze standing figure of Osiris, c. 600 B.C.

Code: 1678

£1,850.00
Description: A fine bronze standing figure of Osiris, wearing a multistrand collar with counter-weight, a plumed headdress and holding crook and flail. The figure has been cleaned with loss of the dark green patina, although this remains in hollows. The head of the uraeus on the forehead lost, but otherwise complete and undamaged, and a finely modelled example.

Size: 108 mm/4.3 ins. high (121 mm/4.7 ins. high with base)

Culture: Egyptian

Date: Late Period, c. 600 B.C.

Provenance: Ex Francis Birch Collection, Lincoln.

A desirable example.

Mounted on a mahogany block.