A WOODEN FIGURE OF A STRIDING PORTER

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A WOODEN FIGURE OF A STRIDING PORTER
FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY X-XI, CIRCA 2100 B.C.
Wearing short layered wig, carved eyebrows, the eyes inlaid with white bone/ivory with bronze/copper rims, finely carved body showing collar bone, inlaid nipples, and wearing a shendyt-kilt, well-defined knees and muscles, both arms by his side with each hand clasped, mounted
14 in. (35.3 cm.) high

Exhibited

Le Don du Nil, p. 33, pls. 112a-b, no. 112.

Lot Essay

The statue is covered with a dark brown gesso paint to imitate ebony. Cf. O. Koefoed-Peterson, Catalogue des statues et statuettes Egyptiennes, Copenhagen, 1950, pl. 15 (Inv. Aein 1342) for a similar wooden statue in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotheque, Copenhagen. A similar figure sold on behalf of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art at Sotheby's New York, 17 December 1997, lot 42.

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