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Lot 109*

An Egyptian painted terracotta shabti for Djedmaatiwsankh

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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An Egyptian painted terracotta shabti for Djedmaatiwsankh
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 1070-945 B.C B.C.
White painted with the details of the wig, face and hieroglyphic inscription on the legs painted in black, 'to illuminate the Osiris Djed-maat-iws-ankh beatified', collection numbers inked on the back '242' in red, '877' in black, 11.2cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection, acquired in 1975.
With Superior Gallery, Los Angeles, 25 July 1975.
With Blumka Gallery, New York, circa 1956.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1916 (Inventory no. 16.732).
Drexel Institute Museum, Philadelphia, 1895 (Acc. no. 877).
Col. Anthony J. Drexel, Jr. (1864-1934), Philadelphia.
Emile Brugsch (1842-1930), curator of the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.
Originally from Deir el Bahri cache II.

Published:
G. Scott, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, referred to in text for no. 57D, pp.98.

Literature:
cf. L. Aubert, Les Statuettes Funeraires de la Deuxieme cachette a Deir el-Bahari, Paris, 1998, p.104, no. 50.

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