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fHRKH ROYAL SCULPTURES

But of sculptures in the round there are at lcast two surviving royal hcads, boih almost unknown, which arc very closely related to the Dayton sculpture and may even represent the same as yet unidentified king. These two little known heads, both in American collections, are certainly very close in datc to the Dayton sculpture. Fach has once been illustrated but so obscurely that few will have scen them.

Of these sculptures the one that ties in most closely with the Dayton sculpture is a head preserved to the base of the neck in the collection of the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Indiana. It is smali, being only 9.5cm high (33/4in.) and is madę of wood covered with gesso and heavily gildcd. Its Junior Blue Crown is not only covered with smali concentric circles bul it is encircled with a band or diadem inlaid with red and green glass (pl. 6, B). The uraeus has the same broadly coiled body as in the examples alrcady noted going far over the head. The eyes were originally inlaid. While the face has the same lack of character or marked individuality as the Dayton piece it is a very elegant little piece of sculpture and certainly of about the same datę as the Dayton piece. I am not familiar with the early history of this object but it was from about 1938 in the collection of the famous New York dealer Joseph Brummcr. After his death it was sold at auction in 1949 ²⁵. The smali illustration of it in the sale catalogue is the only published relerencc known to me. There it was ascribed to Dynasty XVIII.

The other head. doubtless the finest of this little group of Intermediate sculptures, has been in the Brooklyn Collection sińce 1937 (pl. 6, C). It has a long history having been first known in the possession of the Abbe Charles Philippe Campion de Tersan. Just whcn he acquired it is not elear. It is not listed in the sale catalogue of his collection (Paris, 1819) madę soon after his death but it is explained there that he had had to sell sonie of his pieces at an earlier datę. In common with many collectors of the time he was probably constantly pressed for cash. The chances are that the acąuisition of this sculpture goes back to Napoleonie times. The head next appears much later in the century at the dispersal of the famous collection of the Comte de Pourtales-Gorgier where it was no. 909 of the sale catalogue (Paris, 1865). At that sale, along with many other Egyptian antiquities, it was purchased by Lord Amherst in whose collection it remained until his famous sale of 1921 ²⁶. There it was ascribed to Psammatichus I. The illustration in this 1921 sale catalogue is the sole publication of this sculpture known to me. There it sports a large bronze uraeus, long sińce removed, which clearly never belonged with the sculpture. The height is 10,1 cm (4in.).

The head which is an extremely fine piece of work, is madę of a splendid piece of dark

²⁵ Sale Catalogue, Joseph Brummer Collection, Parkę-Bernet Galleries. April. 20-23, 1949. no. 24.

²⁶    Sale Catalogue. Amherst Collection. Sothcby, London, 13-17 June. 1921, no. 258.