Important Winter Sale presents Horus the falcon

Bukowskis presents a fine and large Egyptian bronze figure of Horus the falcon, presumably late period Dynasty XXVI, (663-525 B.C.) at the upcoming auction, Important Winter Sale.

Patinated bronze. Finely engraved details of the feather plumage. In ancient Egypt, the Horus falcon represented royal power. Its eyes symbolised the sun and the moon. The Horus falcon served as the protector of the entire Egyptian kingdom (both Lower and Upper Egypt), the royalty, and as a guide for the dead in the afterlife. Height: 22.7 cm excluding later base, total height: 28.7 cm.

From the Collection of Dr Emil Hultmark (1872-1943), Stockholm, thence by descent within the family until now. Dr Emil Hultmark was an art historian, collector, donor and patron of the arts. He combined important work as an art historian not only with the creation of one of the largest and most remarkable private art collections in Sweden, but also with the construction of an archive of Swedish artists and art craftsmen unparalleled in its extent, together with a library containing almost all that has been written about Swedish art.

Emil Hultmark was one of the co-founders of the ‘Kinaklubben’ (China Club) in Stockholm in the 1920's with Carl Kempe (1884-1967) and the Crown Prince Gustav Adolf. He is a well known collector and his beautiful home and summer house is well documented in the magazine 'Svenska Hem i ord och bild' in the 1930's, which provide us with a fascinating window into this golden age of European collecting.

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