Description
The genial god Bes appears here in the form of a furniture leg. With hands on his pot belly and wearing a short kilt with a long apron, he stands bowlegged on a truncated cone base. He has long, upward sweeping, diagonal eyebrows, large eyes, full cheeks, and rounded ears, and he wears a full beard and mustache. His body is soft and unmuscular. As a household god, Bes figured prominently as a decorative motif both in royal and private dwellings.
Provenance
Purchased from Nanette Kelekian, New York
Accession Number
1982.42
Medium
tamarisk
Dimensions
Overall: 44.7 x 5.9 cm (17 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
Classification
Furniture and woodwork
Credit Line
Guerdon S. Holden Memorial Fund