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Lot 222

An Egyptian white glazed composition shabti for Mery-Ptah

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

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An Egyptian white glazed composition shabti for Mery-Ptah
New Kingdom, 19th-20th Dynasty, circa 1279-1069 B.C.
Details painted in black, wearing a striated tripartite wig and a broad collar, with elongated eye-lines and brows, holding a pair of hoes in her hands and a seed bag over her left shoulder, the four horizontal lines of text on the front reading: 'The illuminated one, the Osiris, the Chantress of Amun, Mery-Ptah (beloved of Ptah). She says 'O shabti, if summoned or counted to work in the necropolis, "I will do it, look, here I am, every time"', 8.6cm high

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Provenance:
R. Ellis collection, New York, acquired in Egypt prior to 1966.
with Hixenbaugh Ancient Art, New York.
Private collection, North America, acquired from the above in March 2013.

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