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An Egyptian Polychrome Limestone Ushabti of Mes, 19th Dynasty, reign of Sety I/Ramesses II, 1290-1213 B.C.
Estimate
45,000 - 65,000 GBP
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Description
- An Egyptian Polychrome Limestone Ushabti of Mes
- limestone
- Height 22.2 cm.
holding hoes and seed-sacks suspended over his back, and wearing a broad foliate collar and tripartite wig, his face with large finely carved eyes with long eyebrows and cosmetic lines, the earlobes indented, the seven lines of inscription including the name of the owner Mes, and prayers from Chapter VI of the Book of the Dead.
Provenance
Galerie Maspero, Paris, 1973
Jean-Loup Despras, Paris, 1999
Maurice Mathieu
Rémy Le Fur & Associés, Paris, Antiques, Art Egyptien, Collection Maurice Mathieu, October 10th, 2012, no. 24, illus.
David Aaron Ancient Art, London
Jean-Loup Despras, Paris, 1999
Maurice Mathieu
Rémy Le Fur & Associés, Paris, Antiques, Art Egyptien, Collection Maurice Mathieu, October 10th, 2012, no. 24, illus.
David Aaron Ancient Art, London
Catalogue Note
This ushabti is close to those of the artisan Senedjem, whose important tomb at Deir-el-Medina was excavated in 1885-1886; compare J-L. Bovot, Chaouabtis, Des travailleurs pharaoniques pour l’eternite, Paris, 2003, p. 50, cat. 182, R. Freed, Ramesses the Great, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1987, p.166. no. 37 (Cairo JE 27251), and E. Vassilika, Egyptian Art, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 70-71, no. 31.