AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI
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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI

NEW KINGDOM, RAMESSIDE PERIOD, 19TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1295-1186 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI
NEW KINGDOM, RAMESSIDE PERIOD, 19TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1295-1186 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, wearing a tripartite wig, with prominent ears and fleshy lips, the arms folded, holding hoe and seed-sack in each hand, and also the cord of another seed-sack in the right hand, possibly once painted on the rear, preserving traces of bitumen
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Michel Abemayor (1912-1975) collection, New York.
Property from the Estate of Michel Abemayor; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 11 December 1976, lot 177.
Private collection, California.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 19 May 1979, lot 91.
Charles Pankow (1923-2004) collection, San Francisco.
The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art; Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2004, lot 42.


Literature
Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, Van Doren Gallery, 1981, p. 28.

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