A Polychrome Wood Ushabti Box End Panel, 19th/20th Dynasty, 1292-1075 B.C.

inscribed for Pa-tchaw-medi-amun, Great wab-priest, Foremost of Amun, painted with a figure of the deceased facing right, holding a libation vase in each hand, and wearing a pleated kilt, diaphanous robe, bracelets, broad collar, short beard, and shoulder-length wig, four columns of inscription above, another below; the back of the panel with remains of gesso.

H. Louis Duhring, 1874-1953, Philadelphia
by descent to the present owner

good, entire surface appears to have been coated a long time ago with a resinous/waxy substance which has mostly flaked away across lower part of panel, minor losses and flaking to pigment in exposed areas, especilly at lower extremity of kilt
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An old label written in ink at the back reads "Part of a Mummy Case / from Medeinet Habou(?)."

Compare the closely related end panels of the triple ushabti box of Tjaenhwy in the Louvre (N4124), which is famous for its depiction of the weighing of the heart: J.L. Bovot, Chaouabtis: Des travailleurs pharaoniques pour l'éternité, Paris, 2003, Cat. 20, illus. p. 42. In her typological study of ushabti boxes D.A. Aston classifies Tjaenhwy's as Type IV, which she dates to between the late 19th and early 21st Dynasty (Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, vol. 74, 1994, pp. 25-27).

H. Louis Duhring was a prominent Philadelphia  architect. As a student he received the first Stewardson Traveling Scholarship, resulting in a trip to Venice where he made detailed drawings of the 320 foot Campanile of San Marco. These were later referred to during the 10-year rebuilding of the Campanile after its sudden collapse in 1902.