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An Egyptian painted wood shabti for Lady Huy with an anthropoid coffin 2
7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£25,000 - £35,000
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An Egyptian painted wood shabti for Lady Huy with an anthropoid coffin
New Kingdom, 18th-19th Dynasty, circa 1550-1196 B.C.
The shabti in typical mummiform posture, holding two hoes, wearing a striped tripartite wig and broad collar, the face finely rendered with painted features, the legs with six rows of hieroglyphs for the 'Lady of the house Huy, justified' with the standard shabti text from the Book of the Dead, the wood coffin possibly usurped, with four horizontal bands around the lid and base, a column of hieroglyphic text down the front of the lid with an offering formula to Osiris 'Lord of Abydos', some black and white pigment remaining, the foot of the lid with '112' painted in red, 21.3cm long (2)
New Kingdom, 18th-19th Dynasty, circa 1550-1196 B.C.
The shabti in typical mummiform posture, holding two hoes, wearing a striped tripartite wig and broad collar, the face finely rendered with painted features, the legs with six rows of hieroglyphs for the 'Lady of the house Huy, justified' with the standard shabti text from the Book of the Dead, the wood coffin possibly usurped, with four horizontal bands around the lid and base, a column of hieroglyphic text down the front of the lid with an offering formula to Osiris 'Lord of Abydos', some black and white pigment remaining, the foot of the lid with '112' painted in red, 21.3cm long (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection.
With Charles Ede Ltd, London, 2003. Accompanied by a copy of the invoice.
Elsa McLellan (née Mustaki) Collection, inherited from Gustave Mustaki, Alexandria, imported into London after 1949.
Exhibited:
San Bernardino, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 2003-2011.
Literature:
This type of miniature coffin for a shabti mimics full-size anthropoid coffins with 'the body of the coffin painted white to simulate the mummy bandages with a mask and collar over the body': S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, and C.H. Roehrig, Mummies and Magic: the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, 1993, p. 136, fig. 73 for a very similar example.