Egyptian Pharaoh Carved Stone Head

28 cm with the stand. Provenance Private collection, Mrs. Claude Marcault, France. Formed in 1970. Documents - Attached is a study on the antiquity of the piece issued by an Egypto...

19th century Egyptian stone carving of Horus in the ancient style, the god in the form of a falcon. Quite possibly much earlier in date, it came from a collection that did have ancie...

In the statue it is easy to verify that the stone of top of the head and the half of the face have been worked so that details of the face are more than hinted.

It is interesting to note that the ancient Egyptians were making stone vessels long before they created stone statues.

It is interesting to note that the ancient Egyptians were making stone vessels long before they created stone statues.

The image of Osiris is, therefore, essentially that of the pharaoh: the Atef crown (the white Hedjet crown of Upper Egypt flanked by two ostrich feathers), and the pharaoh's principa...

Both hands hold the wig, therefore, the arms, instead of stretched downwards following the profile of the body, an unequivocal sign of Egyptian human representations, are here upward...

Osiris reigned in ancient Egypt with peace, harmony and wisdom. The Nile fertilized the land and the crops were bountiful.

Inspired by Napoleon’s late-18th-century expedition to the Middle East, French artisans and menuisiers began incorporating motifs from antiquity into their creations. This pair of 19...

Numerous beads that formed necklaces and bracelets were found in burials, many of them featuring falcon-shaped figures carved from different types of stone. From then on, this bird b...

This style is distinguished by its adaptation of Egyptian forms and motifs, sphinxes guarding buildings including lotus blossoms, Pharaoh's heads, the winged disk symbol of the sun G...

Although the porphyry quarries in Sweden were discovered in the early 18th century they gained royal patronage in the early 19th century having become a viable commercial enterprise ...

The ancient Egyptian civilization is the result of the Nile, the myth of the gods also was born in chaos, flood combination was born out of all the gods, heaven and earth has on beha...