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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 12, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Antiquities Sale | 116 | $****** - ****** | AN IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF A LADY |
sculpture
27.3 cm (10.75 in)
Wood
Said to be excavated by Émile Gaston Chassinat (1868-1948) at Deir el-Durunka, south of Assiut.
Omar Pacha Sultan, Cairo.
Collection de Feu Omar Pacha Sultan Le Caire, Paris, 1929, no. 225, pl. XXXVII.
Norbert Schimmel (1905-1990), New York.
Important Antiquities from the Norbert Schimmel Collection; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 December 1992, lot 97.
William B. Dietrich, Philadelphia, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the current owner.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, 1974-1977.<br>Berlin, Ägyptischen Museum, and elsewhere, Von Troja bis Amarna, The Norbert Schimmel Collection, 1978-1979.<br>
O.W. Muscarella, ed., Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Mainz, 1974, no. 181.<br>J. Settgast, et al., Von Troja bis Amarna, The Norbert Schimmel Collection, New York, Mainz, 1978, no. 195.<br>
Superbly sculpted, depicted standing with her feet together, the separately-made arms at her side and pinned in place with wood dowels, her long delicate fingers with white-painted nails, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath dress, revealing the form of her body beneath, with straps covering her breasts, ornamented with elaborate bracelets and anklets, her triangular face with inlaid eyes of white and black stone, presumably alabaster and obsidian, framed in copper, with a slender nose, a slightly-smiling mouth and a pointed chin, with a voluminous, striated, tripartite wig, painted black, on a deep integral plinth pinned in place into the rectangular base, the base painted red over white, with a black-painted hieroglyphic inscription, the Hetep-di nesu formula, partially preserved, reading "An invocation of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, for the Ka of ...hetep, justified"
