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Two Egyptian painted wood shabtis for Ta-weret-shed-[su]

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Two Egyptian painted wood shabtis for Ta-weret-shed-[su]
New Kingdom, Ramesside, 19th-20th Dynasty, circa 1292-1069 B.C.
Both with faces and arms painted in red, wearing tripartite black wigs, holding hoes in both hands, one with a mesh bag and the other with a seed bag across the back, both with broad neck collars and a central vertical panel of hieroglyphs on yellow ground reading: 'Recitation by the Osiris, Mistress of the House, the Chantress of Amun, Ta-weret-shed-[su]', 17.5 and 18.6cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, UK.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1997, lot 124.
Private collection, UK.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 26 October 2007, lot 20.
John Evans collection, Merseyside, UK, acquired at the above sale.

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