Two Egyptian Polychrome Wood Ushabtis, 19th/20th Dynasty, 1292-1075 B.C.

comprising an ushabti wearing a broad beaded collar, bracelets, and tripartite wig, the face with long finely painted eyebrows and cosmetic lines and indented earlobes, faint traces of the inscription on the body visible, and an ushabti holding hoes and seed-sack and wearing a tripartite wig, seven lines of inscription in front.

Egyptian family collection, Alexandria and Cairo, acquired in the early part of the 20th century in Egypt and Europe, and transferred from Egypt to northern European family residences in the early 1950s
Northern European private collection, by direct descent from the above in the 1970s
acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002

The smaller figure with a large chip to proper right foot, surface somewhat rubbed with areas of minor loss to pigment, more significant losses to black pigment on wig on both lappets and back of proper left side of back, wig on back of head worn overall, splits in wood including one across face and on top of head. The larger figure missing most of painted decoration on middle and lower body in the front and back, pigments on wig missing almost all together, chip on chin as shown, various minor losses to broad collar and face decoration, large split from top of head to proper right hip along the side.
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An old auction catalogue description (Sotheby's London?) is glued on the back of the second ushabti and reads, "Huy, superintendent of the workmen..."