AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE GROUP OF TWO WRESTLING MONKEYS, LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.

AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE GROUP OF TWO WRESTLING MONKEYS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
3 ½ in. (8.9 cm.) high

Provenance
with Charles D. Kelekian (1900-1982), New York.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, New York, 1973.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON

Literature
W.K. Simpson, The Face of Egypt: Permanence and Change, Katonah, 1977, no. 68.
P. Koob, Divine, Domestic and Desert Animals in Ancient Egyptian Art, Greenwich, 1979, no. 65.
F.D. Friedman, ed., Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience, New York, 1998, pp. 144 and 232, no. 134.

Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 10 December 1973-2 September 1983 (Loan no. 722.1973).
Katonah Gallery and the Dallas Museum of Art, The Face of Egypt, Permanence and Change in Egyptian Art, 13 March-28 August 1977.
Greenwich, Connecticut, Greenwich Library, Divine, Domestic and Desert Animals in Ancient Egyptian Art, 4 January-4 March 1979.
New Haven, The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1984-1986.
Cleveland Museum of Art and elsewhere, Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience, 19 May-5 July 1998.