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Lot 265

An Egyptian limestone polychrome painted shabti for Tawert

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

£1,200 - £1,800

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An Egyptian limestone polychrome painted shabti for Tawert
New Kingdom, mid-late 18th Dynasty, circa 1500-1292 B.C.
The mummiform body painted ochre, wearing a black tripartite wig, the face, hands and broad collar painted in red with added details in black, the arms across the chest holding two hoes, a red seed bag at the back below the wig, with a central vertical column of hieroglyphs at the front naming the owner, 18cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK, acquired in the 1920s; and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 26 April 2001, lot 161.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

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