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An Egyptian polychrome limestone shabti image 1
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Lot 37*

An Egyptian polychrome limestone shabti

24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian polychrome limestone shabti
New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, circa 1400-1327 B.C.
In typical mummiform pose, the face painted red, the body yellow, wearing a black wig with braided ends, a broad collar and bracelets at the wrists, holding a hoe in the right hand, a cord in the left leading to a seed bag down the back of the right shoulder, with seven rows of text on the legs for 'Mehia', 8in (20.4cm) high, mounted

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Provenance:
Joseph Klein Collection, formed in New York between 1941 and 1980. Thence by descent.

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