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Isis Suckling Horus

CultureEgyptian
Date7th-1st century B.C.E.
MediumBronze with gold inlay
DimensionsOverall: 11 7/8 × 2 inches (30.16 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number43-25
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 102
Collections
Exhibition History

Special loan, Milwaukee Art Center, February 20-June 29, 1959.

 

Echoes of Eternity: The Egyptian Mummy and the Afterlife, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 4, 1999-May 7, 2000.  

Provenance

With Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), Cairo, by March 2, 1937 [1];

Purchased at his sale, Egyptian antiquities in bronze, stone, wood and faience, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, March 2, 1937, lot 115, through William Permain, by William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), New York and San Simeon, CA, 1937-December 9, 1940 [2];

Purchased from Hearst by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. N4852, December 9, 1940-December 13, 1943 [3];

Purchased from Brummer, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.

NOTES:

[1] According to Jeffrey Pilkington, Principal Researcher, Christie’s, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Specialist, Provenance, April 5, 2017, NAMA curatorial files.

[2] William Randolph Hearst Archive, Long Island University Post (S/B lot 1400, article 1, Album 57, p. 4).

[3] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Brummer Gallery Records, Egyptian, Object inventory card no. N4852.

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