DEUX LAMES DE HACHES
Bronze à patine verte; 19 x 32 cm et 5,5 x 8 cm Egypte, Moyen-Empire, XIIe Dynastie, circa 1974-1700 av. J.-C. Two Middle Kingdom Bronze axe blades. Comprising one of elongated crescentic form with three attachment tangs, each pierced for bindings; and one of crescentic form with three atatchment tangs, each with single piercing. Dynasty 12th, circa 1974-1700 B.C.E. For discussion of similar axe blades cf. W.C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, vol. I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York, 1953, pp. 282-283, fig. 185. Provenance Ancienne collection Alton Edward Mills, Suisse, 1882, puis par descendance jusqu'en 1970 Christie's Londres, Antiquities, Avril 2015, lot 32 Littérature comparative ROEDER, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin, 1996 Egypt, The Leiden Collection in Bologna, IV.3-IV.4