AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF A WOMAN

MIDDLE KINGDOM, 2040-1640 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF A WOMAN
MIDDLE KINGDOM, 2040-1640 B.C.
Depicted nude, standing with her feet together on an integral tapering base, her long arms at her sides, wearing a center-parted striated tripartite wig, her eyes outlined in metal, presumably copper, and inlaid with opaque white stone and contrasting dark material, preserving traces of dark pigment on the wig and for the bracelets, anklets, sandals and pubic area
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Max Stern, Montreal, 1970s.
with Walter Banko, Montreal, 1994.

Exhibited

San Bernardino, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, periodically until August 2005.

Lot Essay

Related female statuettes are usually interpreted as fertility figures, based on the nudity and the posture of the feet together side by side, considered a submissive attitude. For related examples see no. 15 in Capel and Markoe, eds., Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven, Women in Ancient Egypt, and no. 187 in Muscarella, Ancient Art, The Norbert Schimmel Collection.

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