180 EGYPTIAN BRONZE RECUMBENT SPHINX, the forepaws extended forward, the hind paws folded under, the tail curved around its right hindquarter, the false beard secured by a chin strap, wearing a nemes headcloth fronted by a uraeus and surmounted by the red crown. Rare and choice. 1st Century BC/AD. H. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm.); L. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) Ex Zakaria Collection, Los Angeles, formed in the 1960s; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Christie’s, New York, December 2005. 181 EGYPTIAN BRONZE TUTU, THE ROYAL SPHINX from the top of a standard, with taut and slender leonine body, the god wearing a false beard with engraved cheek-straps, tripartite wig, and headdress composed of ram's horns surmounted by ostrich feathers, sun-disk, and uraeus. Late Period, 525-30 BC. H. 2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm.) Rare type. Ex French collection, J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Bonham’s, London, in December 2010. Cf. R. Fazzini, Images for Eternity: Egyptian Art from Berkeley and Brooklyn, Brooklyn, p. 92, no. 78. 182 EGYPTIAN BRONZE SPHINX reclining on an integral rectangular plinth, in the traditional attitude, wearing a beaded broad collar and a striated nemes head-cloth fronted by a uraeus. 1st-2nd Century AD. L. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) Ex private New England collection, acquired before 1980. 183 EGYPTIAN BRONZE STRIDING SPHINX A strong, near portrait-like human-headed sphinx, wearing nemes head-cloth and broad collar. Roman Period, 1st-3rd Century AD. L. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) Rare type. Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from J. Malter, Encino, California, in February 2007.
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