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LOT 0013
Egyptian Painted Clay Shabti in Daily Dress
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1292-1069 B.C.
4 7/8 in. (119 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand).
Shabti wearing the kilted dress of daily life, painted white, a blue-black lappet wig, arms crossed, and hands holding hoes, applied in red pigment; the face yellow; a yellow panel of hieroglyphic text on and beneath the kilt reading: 'The illuminated one, the Osiris, Wen....'; feet missing; mounted on a display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from the Egypt 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.115.
Cf. Cavillier, G., Catalogo degli Ushabti del Museo Egizio di Firenze, Volume II: Nuovo Regno (Seconda Parte), BAR International Series 2872, Oxford 2017, p. 118, no. 280, for a complete pottery shabti in daily-life dress with similar decoration.
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LOT 0013
Egyptian Painted Clay Shabti in Daily Dress
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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