Lot 96
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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FEMALE FIGURE
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 2… Read more THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FEMALE FIGURE

OLD KINGDOM-FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 2300-2025 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FEMALE FIGURE
OLD KINGDOM-FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 2300-2025 B.C.
The slender nude standing with feet together, her straight arms and long slender fingers held to the sides, wearing short wig and broad beaded polychrome collar, eyebrows, eyes and pubic area with details in added black and white
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high
Provenance
with N. Koutoulakis, Geneva, Switzerland, 1973.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired 16 January 1973; and thence by descent to the present owner.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Female servant figures, or concubines, with their sensual modelling, would have been placed in tombs for their fertilty aspects. For a similar Late Kingdom-First Intermediate Period wood female figure cf. British Museum, no. 1907, 0511.160.

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