Description
The feet have broken away from this black-speckled carnelian representation of Horus-the-Child, but the angle of the legs suggests he was seated on his mother's lap. A loop protruding from the shoulders is also broken off.
Provenance
Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, lot 235; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1926, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.