Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I
Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Serpentine Theophorous Figure of Tutu, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.
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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Serpentine Theophorous Figure of Tutu
26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.
striding, holding a statuette of the goddess Neith, and wearing a pleated kilt with central tab, the finely inscribed back pillar translating "The Nomarch, Seal-bearer of the King of Lower Egypt, Sole Friend, Palace Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Tutu, son of the Palace Chamberlain, Wah-ib-re-mery-neith."
Height 14 cm.
Prof. Roland Bay (1909-1992), Basel, Switzerland, inv. no. Ae. 174, acquired in the 1950s
Swiss private collection, by descent (Christie’s, London, September 23rd, 1998, no. 90, illus.)
private collection, United Kingdom
property of a private foundation
acquired by the present owner from the above
Published
Hermann Schlögl, ed., Le don du Nil: Art égyptien dans les collections suisses, catalogue of the exhibition at the Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich, Historisches Museum, Bern, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, and Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genève, Basel, 1978, pp. 83-84, no. 290, pls. 290a-c
Hermann Schlögl, ed.,Geschenk des Nils: Ägyptische Kunstwerke aus Schweizer Besitz, catalogue of the exhibition at the Ägyptologisches Seminar Universität Basel, Basel, 1978, no. 290 J. Malek et al., eds., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. 8, Oxford, 1999, no. 801-735-410 (mentioning H. W. Müller Archive 73 [II/811-14, 826-9])
For related examples compare a basalt statue of a standing Wennefer holding a figure of Khonspakhered in the British Museum, acc. no. EA55254 (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA55254) and a greywacke statue of a kneeling official holding a shrine containing a figure of Ptah in the Cleveland Museum of Art, acc. no. 1920.1978 (https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.1978).