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Lot 217

An Egyptian wood canopic jar and stopper

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £7,000

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An Egyptian wood canopic jar and stopper
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, circa 1976-1793 B.C.
The stopper in the form of a human-headed canopic deity, the face painted ochre, the wig, eyes and eyebrows in added black and white, the jar made in two parts and joined with tenons, with two columns of text naming the deity as Duamutef, and the owner, partially preserved, as '...renef', jar and stopper probably not belonging, 37.5cm high

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Provenance:
Alexandre Varielle (1909-1951) collection.
Anonymous sale; Pierre Bergé & Associes, Paris, 17 June 2010, lot 143.
Private collection, North America, acquired at the above sale.

For similar stoppers, see the canopic jars of Nakht-Ankh in A.R. David, The Two Brothers: Death and Afterlife in Middle Kingdom Egypt, BC, 2007, p. 53, no. 35, and the wooden canopic stoppers from the 12th Dynasty canopic chest of Gua in the British Museum, London, acc. no. EA308383.

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