Egyptian Animal Sculptures

S.F. Bay Trading Bronze Egyptian Reclining Cat, 20th Century.

This mysterious Ancient Cypriot Ceramic Sculpture of a Horse on Wood Plinth Base originates from Cyprus, 4th Century BCE. Features a beautifully sculpted form with carefully graduate...

The Egyptian Ba-Bird sculpture is a wooden statue of a human-headed bird that may have been used in burials during the Ptolemaic and Late Periods. The sculpture is sometimes attached...

BRONZE EGYPTIAN CAT GODDESS A rare and stylised gold patinated solid bronze cast cat god ‘Bastet’ with hollow eyes produced in the Art Deco period, havin...

Typically hand-carved or molded in the form of a dung beetle, scarabs were widely popular amulets and impression seals in ancient Egypt. Made of wood, ceramic, or stone, scarabs were...

Pair of Italian terracotta sphinxes in the Egyptian style. Each sphinx is stamped on the side: Fabbricato Michele Agresti, Firenze. Unrestored patina condition. The Agresti family is...

Elegant midcentury sitting bronze bastet sculpture, France, 1960s. The Bastet cat god sits elegantly and straight on a black marble base. The tail lies resting nestled against the...

An exceptionally fine Egyptian limestone relief of a barn owl, 26th Dynasty/Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C. Carved in high relief, depicting the animal in profile with the creature’s head turned to face the viewer. The bird is shown with a triangular, pointed beak, its large round eyes framed by a spray of feathers, the borders of the face, the forehead, the body and the top of the wing delicately carved with minutely detailed plumage. This small masterpiece is the work of a particularly skilled and talented sculptor and is among the finest Egyptian representations of owls in private hands. Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic limestone plaques...

An Egyptian bronze Horus falcon, Late Period, circa 716-30 B.C. “I am Horus, the great Falcon... My flight has reached the horizon... I have gone further than the gods of old. Even the most ancient...

Heavy large Bronze Bastet Cat made around the 1970's - 1980's. Beautifull Christmas gift or Present.

The Egyptian Collection by Wedgwood "Couchant Sphinx" No. 2 in a limited edition of 100. Black basalt Egyptian Sphinx lying with the body resting on the legs with head raised. Fine q...

This figure composed of wood covered in gesso and mounted with cast bronze tail, head and legs has been set on a later wood base. The head and tail are finely detailed and engraved. Purchased in the Middle East in 1969 and then brought to this country and remaining in the same collection ever since the statue represents Thoth. The image of an ibis on a perch in hieroglyphics is the image of the God Thoth and thus is a double symbol. Referred to as “The Lord of the Divine Words” he was a favorite of learned men and was considered the god of wisdom, scribes, and the powerful and magical skill of writing. Numerous examples of this form of depiction exist some with alabaster instead of wood some in total bronze and then some bronze mounted with gessoed wood or with the gesso gilded in different states of decay. We believe this to be from a late period approx. 30 BC. It is possible to cite many examples but a specific one is chosen here as it is incredibly similar in size, in construction and appearance to this example sold by Case Antiques Auction...