WOOD STATUETTE OF MAN

WOOD STATUETTE OF MAN

Striding with left foor forward, arms alongside of his slender body, wearing white painted kilt, short braided black wig; all details as eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth sculpted, traces of white and black paint; original wooden base gone

Provenance: Swiss private collection F.D.; with Alexander Ancient Art, 2013; with Cahn Basel, September 2005; before collection of Alfred Obrecht, Feldbrunnen, Switzerland.
H. 27 cm.

Old Kingdom, 6th dynasty, reign of Pepi II (circa 2250 BC)

Cf. Julia Harvey, Wooden Statues of the Old Kingdom. A Typological Study (Leiden, Brill, 2001), 253, no. A70.