ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE SITULA
EGYPT, LATE PERIOD, 664 - 332 B.C.
£9,450
Auction: 30 November 2022 at 14:00 GMT
Description
bronze, the ovoid body with a knopped base and swing handle, with an incised rectangular panel containing on the left a priest seated on a stool with incense cones on his head and wearing a panther pelt and with an offering table in front, with fourteen rows of hieroglyphs and a standing priest wearing a panther pelt, holding an incense burner and pouring a libation, raised on a bespoke mount
Provenance
Lady Meux (1847-1910), Theobald’s Park, Hertfordshire
Annie Trotter, London
Ingrid McAlpine (1939-2018), London and Epsom, acquired from the above October 22nd, 1993
Wooley & Wallis, Salisbury, September 19th, 2019, lot 1954