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LOT 0410
Egyptian Wooden Statue Base
LATE NEW KINGDOM-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 1250-30 B.C.
5 3/8 in. (179 grams, 13.5 cm).
Cuboid with a rectangular channel to one side and two oval mounting sockets. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market, 1982-1989.
LiteratureCf. Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, London, 2018, p.249, for a bronze statuette with its original wooden throne and base.
FootnotesThe channel bears traces of oxidisation indicating that it belonged with a copper-alloy statuette.
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Large Egyptian Composition Shabti for Pa-di-Osiris
Late Period, 26th-30th Dynasty, 664-343 B.C.Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £4,000
Of mummiform type and decorated with a blue-green glaze; inscribed for a priest named Pa-di-Osiris, whose mother’s name is Sed-irt-binut; the shabti wearing a striated tripartite wig and long plaited divine beard; holding a pick in the left hand, the right hand holding a hoe and the cord of a seed bag hanging over his left shoulder; the face expertly modelled 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; twelve horizontal rows of hieroglyphic inscription, the Sixth Chapter of the Book of the Dead; accompanied by a custom-made display base. 248 grams, 19.5 cm high (410 grams total, 23.5 cm high including stand)
Acquired on the Geneva art market, 1980. Swiss collection, early 1980s until 2000. UK private collection, 2000. Accompanied by an academic report by Egyptologist Paul Whelan. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11802-206400.
The epithet 'true of voice' following the mother’s name, but not that of the owner, is a rather infrequent arrangement in shabti/ushabti inscriptions but can be found on other fine examples from this period. Pa-di-Osiris’s title is unusual, but may belong to the cult of the god Shu whose name is sometimes followed by the epithet, 'he who supports heaven'. The text contains Schneider’s version VIIA of The Book of the Dead Chapter 6. -
Phoenician Carnelian Scaraboid with Semitic Inscription
8th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
With a domed upper face and bevelled side edge; base inscribed over two lines or columns separated by three lines; pierced for suspension; chip to base. 1.9 grams, 15 mm
From an old French collection, formed in the 1980s-1990s. Property of a North London antiquary. -
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Face Mask
Late Dynastic-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
In various colours representing a mummy face mask with false beard; restrung. 41.9 grams, 14.5 cm wide
Acquired 1970s onwards. Private collection of Michael O'Hara, Cambridgeshire, UK. Ex private collection of Benjamin Hyde-Smith, Hertfordshire, UK
