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LOT 0431
Egyptian Bronze Shabti for General Wendjebauendjed
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1047-1001 B.C.
3 in. (68.9 grams, 78 mm).
Mummiform figure wearing a plain tripartite wig, with crossed arms and prominently modelled hands, and a vertical panel of hieroglyphs on the front reading: 'The Osiris, the General Wendjebauendjed, true of voice'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
LiteratureCf. Aubert, J-F., Aubert, L., Statuettes Égyptiennes: chaouabtis, ouchebtis, Paris, 1974, pp. 152-156, and pl. 37, nos. 86-88, for discussion and comparable examples.
FootnotesShabtis made of bronze are uncommon. Ramesses II and Ramesses III were the first pharaohs to use bronze shabtis, a practice Pharaoh Psusennes I reestablished in the 21st Dynasty. In addition to Psusennes I, bronze shabtis were produced for Queen Mutnedjemet, his sister and wife, and for General Wendjebauendjed, who was buried in the same royal hypogeum at Tanis. The exact number of shabtis provided for the general remains unknown, though he had at least twenty mummiform and one overseer shabti in bronze, and many more in faience.
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LOT 0431
Egyptian Bronze Shabti for General Wendjebauendjed
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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Opening Bid: £250
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Egyptian Green Glazed Faience Shabti
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Opening Bid: £550
Modelled with a slender mummiform body on a small rectangular base; the long face framed by a striated tripartite wig and false beard; the hands of the imperceptibly crossed arms hold a hoe and a pick; the right hand also holds a cord from which a seed bag hangs over the figure's back; a dorsal pillar on the reverse; uninscribed. 102 grams, 14 cm
Ex Ms.E.C.(1923-2014), Israel. Inherited by his son D.L., Switzerland.
Although uninscribed, the distinctive long face, manner of hand styling and long striated wig lappets suggest that it may come from the same mould as another shabti in the World Museum, Liverpool (Janes, G., The Shabti Collections 6: A Selection from the World Museum, Liverpool, Lymm, 2016, p. 501, no. 264b).
