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Auction archive: Lot number 0004

Egyptian Glazed Composition 'Smen Ta Wa' Shabti

Estimate
£1,800 - £2,400
ca. US$3,031 - US$4,042
Price realised:
£3,630
ca. US$6,113
Auction archive: Lot number 0004

Egyptian Glazed Composition 'Smen Ta Wa' Shabti

Estimate
£1,800 - £2,400
ca. US$3,031 - US$4,042
Price realised:
£3,630
ca. US$6,113
Beschreibung:

EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION 'SMEN TA WA' SHABTI Late Period, 664-332 BC A light green, superbly-modelled shabti with tripartite wig and plaited beard, crossed hands holding tools, dorsal pillar and square base; bands of elaborate funerary hieroglyphic text on the lower body, in part reading: 'Smen Ta Wa priest of the food temple of Ptah and superior of the Pharaoh's food'. 234 grams, 19 cm (7 1/2"). Very fine condition, unusually fine modelling and hieroglyphic text. Provenance Private French collection, Paris art market, 1980s. Footnotes A shabti of this superb quality can only have been made for a person of very high status. Ptah is the ultimate creator god, considered the demiurge, the artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe, who existed before all things, and by his wilfulness, imagined the world into existence.

Auction archive: Lot number 0004
Auction:
Datum:
29 May 2014
Auction house:
Timeline Auctions
23-24 Berkeley Square
London, W1J 6HE
United Kingdom
enquiries@timelineauctions.com
+44 (0)20 71291494
+44 (0)1277 814122
Beschreibung:

EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION 'SMEN TA WA' SHABTI Late Period, 664-332 BC A light green, superbly-modelled shabti with tripartite wig and plaited beard, crossed hands holding tools, dorsal pillar and square base; bands of elaborate funerary hieroglyphic text on the lower body, in part reading: 'Smen Ta Wa priest of the food temple of Ptah and superior of the Pharaoh's food'. 234 grams, 19 cm (7 1/2"). Very fine condition, unusually fine modelling and hieroglyphic text. Provenance Private French collection, Paris art market, 1980s. Footnotes A shabti of this superb quality can only have been made for a person of very high status. Ptah is the ultimate creator god, considered the demiurge, the artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe, who existed before all things, and by his wilfulness, imagined the world into existence.

Auction archive: Lot number 0004
Auction:
Datum:
29 May 2014
Auction house:
Timeline Auctions
23-24 Berkeley Square
London, W1J 6HE
United Kingdom
enquiries@timelineauctions.com
+44 (0)20 71291494
+44 (0)1277 814122
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