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An Egyptian style limestone relief Possibly attributable to the workshop of the 'Berlin Forger',...
An Egyptian style limestone relief Possibly attributable to the workshop of the 'Berlin Forger', Oxan Aslanian The young male depicted in profile, with elaborately braided hair and dressed in a delicate gossamer shift, 23.3cm high, 19.5cm wide, 3cm deep approximately Footnotes: Provenance Ex-collection the art photographer Werner Forman. The subject copied from a scene of the 18th century Dynasty (temp. Amenhotep III, circa 1355 BC) and found in the tomb of Ramose at Luxor (Theban tomb 55). N.B. The Staatliche Samlung Ägyptischer Kunst in Munich did a show on Aslanian's work in 1983 (Falsche Pharaonen, ed. Sylvia Schoske and Dietrich Wildung), and examples of his work are in a number of collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Literature Mentioned in the 'The Forman Head of an Amarna Princess and the Mother of Tutankhamun (Amarna Royal Tombs Project, Occasional Paper No. 6, 2024), p. 4, n. 26,' see: https://www.academia.edu/109735223/The_Forman_Head_of_an_Amarna_Princess_and_the_Mother_of_Tutankhamun_2023_. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
An Egyptian style limestone relief Possibly attributable to the workshop of the 'Berlin Forger', Oxan Aslanian The young male depicted in profile, with elaborately braided hair and dressed in a delicate gossamer shift, 23.3cm high, 19.5cm wide, 3cm deep approximately Footnotes: Provenance Ex-collection the art photographer Werner Forman. The subject copied from a scene of the 18th century Dynasty (temp. Amenhotep III, circa 1355 BC) and found in the tomb of Ramose at Luxor (Theban tomb 55). N.B. The Staatliche Samlung Ägyptischer Kunst in Munich did a show on Aslanian's work in 1983 (Falsche Pharaonen, ed. Sylvia Schoske and Dietrich Wildung), and examples of his work are in a number of collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Literature Mentioned in the 'The Forman Head of an Amarna Princess and the Mother of Tutankhamun (Amarna Royal Tombs Project, Occasional Paper No. 6, 2024), p. 4, n. 26,' see: https://www.academia.edu/109735223/The_Forman_Head_of_an_Amarna_Princess_and_the_Mother_of_Tutankhamun_2023_. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing