Lot 26
  • 26

A Brilliant Blue Faience Ushabti of Pinudjem I, 21st Dynasty, 1075-944 B.C.

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • A Brilliant Blue Faience Ushabti of Pinudjem I
  • Height 4 1/4 in. 10.8 cm.
holding hoes and wearing a striated tripartite wig with uraeus in relief, the details and column of inscription in front painted in black.

Provenance

Paulette Goddard Remarque (Christie's, London, November 8th, 1977, no. 160, illus.)

Condition

excellent, glued to base
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Catalogue Note

Cf. J.-L. Bovot, Les serviteurs funéraires royaux et princiers de l'Ancienne Égypte, Paris, 2003, nos. 76 and 79, and Aubert,

Statuettes égyptiennes, pl. 25, no. 53.