Lot 107
  • 107

An Egyptian Deep Blue Faience Ushabti of Iset-em-khebit, 21st Dynasty, 1075-924 B.C.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • An Egyptian Deep Blue Faience Ushabti of Iset-em-khebit
  • faience
  • Height from modern base 14 cm.
Chief of the Harem of Amun and second wife of Pinodjem II, holding hoes and seed-sack and wearing a tripartite wig, four lines of inscription in front. the details painted in black.

Provenance

the Norwegian painter and art collector Henrik Sørensen (1878-1962), acquired in Paris, London or Cairo in the 1950s
the Norwegian physicist Sven Oluf Sørensen (1920-2017)
by descent to the current owner

Catalogue Note

Cf. G. James, Shabtis, a Private View, Paris, 2002, pp. 59-61, no. 30.