AN EGYPTIAN STONE FIGURE OF A WOMAN, 1ST HALF OF THE 12TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1938-1850 B.C. | An Egyptian Stone Figure of a Woman

striding with her left leg advanced, and wearing a close-fitting haltered dress and striated tripartite wig falling to the top of the back pillar, a fragmentary column of inscription on her left thigh reading "the woman revered one before...".

Joseph Klein, New York, acquired between 1941 and 1980
private collection, by descent (Bonhams, London, October 24th, 2012, no. 36, illus.) https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20021/lot/36/
acquired by the present owner at the above sale 

An old typewritten label applied to the front of the original early to mid 20th-century Egyptian wood base reads: "No. I89/30 Hématite / PHARAON de la XIIe / dynastie avec inscrip-/tion hieroglyphique." The inventory number with capital I used instead of a 1 is typical of Albert Eid's, a Belgian art dealer established in Cairo. Most of his stock was dispersed in the US after his death (see the note to Sotheby's, New York, June 13th, 2002, no. 30). For a related example from a family group in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, inv. no. 59-23-1, see D. P. Silverman, Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1997, p. 128, no. 35 (https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/206493)