More on the outcome of the Christie's auction

http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6

This brief article on the Daily Star website provides a little more information on the limestone statue purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, but also this coverage of the purchase of the statue of Nefertari: "Separately, Christie's sold an Egyptian black granite standard-bearing statue of Queen Nefertari, dating back to the Reign of Ramesses II, Dynasty XIX, 1290-1224 BC, for a record $2.3 million, over an undisclosed estimate. The Nefertari piece was previously bought at Christie's in 1979 for just $220,000, which was a world record at the time. This sale of ancient Egyptian artifacts was part of a larger, two-day antiquities sale".

See the above web page on the Daily Star website for the full article.

http://news-antique.com/?id=700&keys=antiquity-egyptian-christies

This article focuses more on the amount that items were sold for, and how this compares with previous record sale prices: "The previous world auction record for an Egyptian antiquity was £883,750 ($1,418,418) for an Egyptian sarcophagus at Christie’s in South Kensington in 2003."