Sothebys Pankow Egyptian Antiquities Auction Catalog 04

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Title: Sotheby's The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art  

Auction held in: New York

Sale Date:  12/8/04

No. of Lots: 163

No. of Pages: 152

Condition:  Excellent

The Charles Pankow Collection, one of the largest private collections of fine Egyptian antiquities to appear on the market in recent memory. Comprising approximately 160 works of ancient Egyptian art, the collection is strong in virtually every category including stone sculpture, bronzes, faience, and the funerary arts and spans the history of ancient Egyptian art from its beginnings before the 1st Dynasty, circa 3000 B.C., to the period of Roman rule circa A.D. 200. The collection, which was assembled in the 1970s and early 1980s, is estimated to bring $2.5/3.5 million.

Among the many highlights are an impressive limestone statue of a man and wife dating to the 6th Dynasty, circa 2300 B.C.(est. $300/500,000), a beautiful polychrome wood mummy mask of the 19th Dynasty, circa 1250 B.C. (est. $40/60,000), an imposing life-size granite bust of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, 18th Dynasty, circa 1350 B.C. (est. $200/300,000), an alabaster jar inscribed for King Merneptah (1213-1204 B.C.) discovered in the king's tomb by Howard Carter shortly before he found the tomb of Tutankhamun (est. $12/18,000), an unusually large turquoise faience hippopotamus (est. $40/60,000) and an impressive bronze figure of the god Osiris, formerly in the renowned Hilton Price Collection, which was sold by Sotheby's London in 1911 (est. $30/50,000). Credit: Sotheby's Press

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