Tête de prêtre

Catalogue de la vente Pourtalès 1865 n°909

Catalogue de la vente Amherst (Londres) 1921, n°258

Notice du catalogue Pourtalès, 1865 :

909. — Grès rouge.— Tête d'homme rasé. Sur son front est un uraeus en bronze, attribut distinctif. — Coll. de l'abbé de Tersan. Sur socle en jaspe panthère.

Archaeological provenance not yet documented; prior to 1819, reportedly in the collection of Charles-Philippe Campion de Tersan of France; by 1841, acquired by James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier of Switzerland; February-March 1865, purchased from the James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier collection sale, “Vente de la galerie Pourtales”, by Lord William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, of London, United Kingdom; June 13-17, 1921, sold at Sotheby’s London, “The Amherst Collection of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities”, lot 258; between 1921 and 1936, provenance not yet documented; before 1936, acquired by Dikran Kelekian of New York, NY; 1936, purchased from Dikran Kelekian by the Brooklyn Museum.