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NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, 1307-1196 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SHABTI
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, 1307-1196 B.C.
Finely sculpted, standing with his feet together on a low plinth, his arms crossing at his chest, each hand clutching a large hoe, a seed sack over his right shoulder, wearing a rectangular pendant from a simple cord and an elaborately-pleated sash-kilt that exposes his corpulent stomach and chest, the central pleat of the forward-projecting triangular apron inscribed with the owner's name, now largely lost, the upper portion of the bipartite wig composed of zigzag curls radiating from the crown, the lower portion echeloned, his broad face with slanted eyes, the upper lids and brows modelled, with a slender nose and smiling lips, the filtrum indicated, preserving pigment throughout, including black for the wig and red for flesh tones
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIX, 1307-1196 B.C.
Finely sculpted, standing with his feet together on a low plinth, his arms crossing at his chest, each hand clutching a large hoe, a seed sack over his right shoulder, wearing a rectangular pendant from a simple cord and an elaborately-pleated sash-kilt that exposes his corpulent stomach and chest, the central pleat of the forward-projecting triangular apron inscribed with the owner's name, now largely lost, the upper portion of the bipartite wig composed of zigzag curls radiating from the crown, the lower portion echeloned, his broad face with slanted eyes, the upper lids and brows modelled, with a slender nose and smiling lips, the filtrum indicated, preserving pigment throughout, including black for the wig and red for flesh tones
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1977, lot 182.
Literature
G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 56, pp. 96-97.
University of Arizona, Museum Notes, Tucson, Fall 1993.
J. Hardin, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, St. Petersburg, 1996, no. 87.
University of Arizona, Museum Notes, Tucson, Fall 1993.
J. Hardin, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, St. Petersburg, 1996, no. 87.
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, periodically 1986-1991.
West Palm Beach, South Florida Science Museum and elsewhere, Imhotep's Egypt, The Dawn of Technology, 8 January-30 March 1989.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, California State University and elsewhere, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, 8 January-30 December 1992.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Mummies: The Egyptian Art of Death, 20 July 1993-1 October 1995.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, 10 January-9 June 1996.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ancestors: Art and the Afterlife, 25 October 1998-25 June 1999.
West Palm Beach, South Florida Science Museum and elsewhere, Imhotep's Egypt, The Dawn of Technology, 8 January-30 March 1989.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, California State University and elsewhere, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, 8 January-30 December 1992.
San Antonio Museum of Art, Mummies: The Egyptian Art of Death, 20 July 1993-1 October 1995.
St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, 10 January-9 June 1996.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ancestors: Art and the Afterlife, 25 October 1998-25 June 1999.