A red painted pottery shabti, with black wig and facial details, tapering body with upward curve, unmodelled back -- 5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) high, Dynasty XIX-XX (1307-1070 B.C.); two red ware pottery shabtis, probably for Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu, with unmodelled back, remains of white surface and black painted details, with crossed arms and seed basket at the back, one repaired at ankle, the other mounted -- both 4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high, Dynasty XXI (1070-945 B.C.), probably from Thebes, Deir el-Bahri (Cache II); a large turquoise glazed composition shabti, with 'T'-shaped inscription, including two horizontal lines of inscription, carrying pick and hoe, with seed basket over left shoulder, back pillar -- 5 5/8in. (14.2cm.) high; a green glazed composition shabti for Ankh-ef, with single frontal column of hieroglyphs, repaired -- 3¾in. (9.6cm.) high; three uninscribed shabtis, with back pillar, standing on integral base -- 4¾in. (12.2cm.) high; and a fragmentary blue glazed composition shabti -- 3½in. (9cm.) high, all Late Period/Ptolemaic, 7th-1st Century B.C. See Colour Plate 2 for item three (9)

Details
A red painted pottery shabti, with black wig and facial details, tapering body with upward curve, unmodelled back -- 5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) high, Dynasty XIX-XX (1307-1070 B.C.); two red ware pottery shabtis, probably for Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu, with unmodelled back, remains of white surface and black painted details, with crossed arms and seed basket at the back, one repaired at ankle, the other mounted -- both 4 3/8in. (11.1cm.) high, Dynasty XXI (1070-945 B.C.), probably from Thebes, Deir el-Bahri (Cache II); a large turquoise glazed composition shabti, with 'T'-shaped inscription, including two horizontal lines of inscription, carrying pick and hoe, with seed basket over left shoulder, back pillar -- 5 5/8in. (14.2cm.) high; a green glazed composition shabti for Ankh-ef, with single frontal column of hieroglyphs, repaired -- 3¾in. (9.6cm.) high; three uninscribed shabtis, with back pillar, standing on integral base -- 4¾in. (12.2cm.) high; and a fragmentary blue glazed composition shabti -- 3½in. (9cm.) high, all Late Period/Ptolemaic, 7th-1st Century B.C.
See Colour Plate 2 for item three (9)
Provenance
Item three: handwritten ink label on mount reads 'Ankh-wah-ab-ra-sa..(?) from Sakkrah, 500 B.C.'
Item nine: label on reverse reads 'PAU(K?)ER'

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