Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from the Estate of Paul and Marianne Steiner
An Inscribed Fragment of an Egyptian Limestone Statue Group, mid 18th Dynasty, circa 1480-1380 B.C.
Lot Closed
July 6, 12:06 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Paul and Marianne Steiner
An Inscribed Fragment of an Egyptian Limestone Statue Group
mid 18th Dynasty, circa 1480-1380 B.C.
probably part of a double ushabti of a husband and wife, the upper part of the front restored and/or re-worked in modern times, the columns of inscription in front and in back finely carved in sunk relief, and naming a Songstress of Mut, the Mistress of the House Wadj-renpet.
Height 28.6 cm.
This object is recorded on the insurance appraisal of the Steiner collection by Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, dated November 8th, 1973.
For a complete double ushabti of the mid-18th Dynasty, now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, see William C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, Part II, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.), Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959, fig. 68, pp. 129-130.