AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OVERSEER SHABTI FOR AMENEMOPE
AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OVERSEER SHABTI FOR AMENEMOPE
AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OVERSEER SHABTI FOR AMENEMOPE
AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OVERSEER SHABTI FOR AMENEMOPE
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AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OVERSEER SHABTI FOR AMENEMOPE

NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1295-1069 B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN STEATITE OVERSEER SHABTI FOR AMENEMOPE
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, 1295-1069 B.C.
7 1⁄8 in. (18 cm.) high
Provenance
James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776-1855), Paris, acquired by 1841.
Catalogue des objets d’art et de haute curiosité, antiques, du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, qui composent les collections de feu M. le Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier, Charles Pillet and Éugene Escribe, Paris, 6 February-21 March 1865, lot 913.
William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909), London; thence by descent.
Catalogue of the Amherst Collection of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities, Sotheby’s, London, 13-17 June 1921, lot 53.
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), San Simeon.
with Gimbel Brothers and Saks Fifth Avenue, under the direction of Hammer Galleries, New York, 1941 (Art Objects & Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection, p. 39, no. 455-35).
Private Collection, The Netherlands; thence by descent.
Property from a Private Collection, The Netherlands; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2013, lot 12.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2015.
Literature
J.J. Dubois, Description des antiques faisant partie des collections de M. le Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier, Paris, 1841, no. 886.

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Lot Essay

The eight lines of inscription around the sides and back of the kilt and along the overfold read, “The Osiris is illuminated, the Great Chief of Metalworkers, Amenemope, Justified. He says: O ye Shabty, if I am called at any time in order to do that which is done in the Necropolis, the Great Chief of Metalworkers of the Lord of the Two Lands, Amenemope, in order to convey sand of the East to the West, one thereof, in every time, in order to do any work which is done in the Necropolis…”

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