A Bronze Figure of the Goddess Maat, 21st/26th Dynasty, 1075-525 B.C.

the goddess of truth seated on an openwork shrine and wearing an enveloping shroud and tripartite wig bound in a diadem, her broad rounded face with full lips, straight nose, and long eyebrows and cosmetic lines, the shrine ornamented in front and back with the top of a Hathor-headed sistrum flanked by uraei, one wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, the other the crown of Lower Egypt, the sides of the shrine each ornamented with a cartouche flanked by vertical bars.

Christie's, New York, May 20th, 1980, no. 199, illus.
Sotheby's, New York, June 6th, 2006, no. 88, illus. (with restored ostrich plume headdress)

For a related example of seated Maat on an openwork shrine in The Brooklyn Museum of Art, inv. no. 37.542, see Roeder, Bronzefiguren, pl. 82c. For seated Maats with openwork Hathor head and uraei on the front of the naos see Le don du Nil: Art égyptien dans les collections suisses, Basel, 1978, pp. 88-89, no. 315 (Christie's, London, September 23rd, 1998, no. 100), and Antiquarium, Ltd., New York, Myth and Majesty: Deities and Dignitaries of the Ancient World, 1992, no. 7.