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Granite Fragment From A Relief

Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, Circa 304–30 B.C.

Height 19.5 Cm.

 

Provenance

Werner Coninx (1911-80), Zurich, 1973-2002

Private collection, UK, 2002-24

 

Comment

Werner Coninx was born into one of the leading and influential publishing and newspaper families in Switzerland. He built up a significant art collection, largely of Swiss art but also paintings by Gustave Klimt and Egon Schiele as well as African, Chinese, Indian and Egyptian antiquities.