A steatite shabti, with incised details, wearing striated tripartite wig, carrying a hoe in each hand and a seed basket behind, slight linear marking between lower legs, mounted -- 4in. (10.2cm.), late New Kingdom, 1300-1070 B.C.; a painted pottery shabti, probably for Hat, with red painted face, black wig and traces of yellow below, with arms crossed -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high, Dynasty XVIII-XIX (1550-1196 B.C.); a blue glazed composition shabti, the glaze mottled black, arms crossed carrying a hoe in each hand, mounted -- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) high, Dynasty XXI-XXII (1070-712 B.C.); another, light blue for Djed-hr (Teos), with central panel of hieroglyphic inscription, mounted -- 4½in. (11.4cm.) high; a wooden figure of a falcon, wearing sun disc with traces of gilding, worn -- 5½in. (14cm.) high, both Ptolemaic period, 4th-2nd Century B.C.; three shabti style figures -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high; and a pottery mould for a shabti -- 8in. (20.3cm.) high, all after the Antique

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A steatite shabti, with incised details, wearing striated tripartite wig, carrying a hoe in each hand and a seed basket behind, slight linear marking between lower legs, mounted -- 4in. (10.2cm.), late New Kingdom, 1300-1070 B.C.; a painted pottery shabti, probably for Hat, with red painted face, black wig and traces of yellow below, with arms crossed -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high, Dynasty XVIII-XIX (1550-1196 B.C.); a blue glazed composition shabti, the glaze mottled black, arms crossed carrying a hoe in each hand, mounted -- 3 1/8in. (8cm.) high, Dynasty XXI-XXII (1070-712 B.C.); another, light blue for Djed-hr (Teos), with central panel of hieroglyphic inscription, mounted -- 4½in. (11.4cm.) high; a wooden figure of a falcon, wearing sun disc with traces of gilding, worn -- 5½in. (14cm.) high, both Ptolemaic period, 4th-2nd Century B.C.; three shabti style figures -- 7¼in. (18.5cm.) high; and a pottery mould for a shabti -- 8in. (20.3cm.) high, all after the Antique
See Colour Plate 2 for items one and two (9)

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All with handwritten ink labels indicating that they are from the collections of Myers or Sir Theodore Fry.

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