LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

Ole Wanscher was a leading figure of the Scandinavian Design movement. Wanscher was inspired by ancient designs, and one of his most famous creations, the "Egyptian Stool", was based on folding chairs from Egypt’s New Kingdom.

The Naophoros "temple-bearer" statue, which was produced from the 18th Dynasty onwards, depicted the deceased kneeling and holding a Naos shrine, and was named after the Egyptian hieroglyph Naos, meaning shrine or temple. For a more complete, larger example in the Cleveland Museum of Art cf. L. M. Berman, Catalogue of Egyptian Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 422-443, no. 316.