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LOT 0485
Egyptian Faience Blue Glazed Shabti
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 323-30 B.C.
5 1/8 in. (91 grams total, 13 cm high including stand).
A typical mummiform figure with moulded facial detailing, a lappet wig, and hands holding a pick and hoe, the back with a possible hieratic inscription, mounted on a custom-made stand with label 'Ancient Egypt / (26th Dyn - Ptolem.) / circa 664-332 BC / Turquoise Faience / Ushabti Figure'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx old UK collection.
Acquired from Cestrian Antiques, Chester, UK, 2002.
Ex Pemberton collection, Wales, UK.
Accompanied by old information labels with collection reference C.234.
Accompanied by the original Cestrian Antiques invoice.
Cf. Schneider, H.D., Shabtis. An Introduction to the History of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Statuettes with a Catalogue of the Collection of Shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, Vol.3, Leiden, 1977, p.78, no. 5.3.4.82, for a similar slender figurine.
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Opening Bid: £500
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Opening Bid: £2,500
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Opening Bid: £667
Of mummiform type, wearing a tripartite wig and long plaited divine beard, with arms crossed and the left hand holding a pick, the right hand holding a hoe and the cord of a seed bag hanging over his left shoulder, with carefully rendered cosmetic lines around the eyes, narrow eyebrows, and slightly smiling lips giving it a serene expression characteristic of the finest ushabtis of the period; standing on an integral plinth from which a plain back pillar terminating at the base of the wig extends; six horizontal rows of hieroglyphic inscription, the Sixth Chapter of the Book of the Dead; water worn and repaired. 248 grams, 18.5 cm
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