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LOT 0007
Egyptian Bright Blue Glazed Faience Shabti of Wennefer
NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1292-1069 B.C.
4 3/8 in. (61 grams total, 11 cm including stand).
Upper half of a mummiform figure (feet missing), with a black-painted tripartite wig, crossed arms subtly modelled in relief, and hands holding hoes rendered in black; two globular water pots (?) on the back, with a bold black line beneath; a hieroglyphic text on the lower body, reading: 'The Osiris Wennefer'; mounted on a display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from the Egyptian Exploration Society, 30th June 1965, for 2 shillings and sixpence.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.118.
Wennefer, a common name, particularly in the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period, which loosely translates as 'the perfect being', was also an epithet of Osiris.
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LOT 0007
Egyptian Bright Blue Glazed Faience Shabti of Wennefer
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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