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LOT 0041
Egyptian Blue Glazed Shabti of Iset-em-khebit
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1077-943 B.C.
3 5/8 in. (80 grams, 93 mm).
Squat mummiform figure wearing a black-painted tripartite wig, arms crossed, holding agricultural implements and a seed bag across the back, painted in black; a hieroglyphic panel on the lower body reading: 'The Osiris, Iset-em-khebit (Ꜣs.t-m-Ꜣḫ-bı͗.t)'.
ProvenanceEx Carl Leonhard Burckhardt-Reinhard (1902-1965), formed since 1922, Egypt.
Inherited by his son Christopher Burckhardt in 1966, Switzerland.
Since then in the possession of his wife, Switzerland.
Cf. Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 6: A Selection from the World Museum, Liverpool, Lymm, 2016, pp. 168-169, no. 77, for another comparable example.
FootnotesShabtis for Iset-em-khebit were recovered from the second 'Priest's of Amun Cache' at Deir el-Bahari.
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LOT 0041
Egyptian Blue Glazed Shabti of Iset-em-khebit
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£320 (EUR 371; USD 432) ‡+BP*
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From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Circa 6th-8th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
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