Head of a Man

ca. 2350-2280 BCE (Old Kingdom)

11 cm 13 cm 12.5 cm

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This excellently worked head once belonged to a statue of a dignitary, but is now broken off at the neck. The head displays attention to detail both in the treatment of the facial features and in the careful indication of the tight curls forming the owner's wig. Remnants of...

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T. W. Bateman, Derbyshire, by 1893, [mode of acquisition unknown]; F. G. Hilton Price, London, 1893, [mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 3125 in 1897 catalogue]; F. G. Hilton Price sale, Sotheby's, London, 1911; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1912, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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