Description:
This is a beautiful composite shabti with well defined details and a lovely, warm turquoise-green colour. His smiling face gives him an enormous "presence".
He is wearing a tripartite wig and has a plaited beard. He is holding pick and hoe in his rather large, crossed hands, and he has a seed back over his proper left shoulder. The shabti has a back pillar and plinth.
There are no inscriptions, so unfortunately we will never know who this smiling person was.
Dating:
Late Period, after 600 B.C.
Size:
Height 11.3 cm without base, 14.9 cm including base.
Provenance:
Dutch private collection; previously with Bonhams, sale 11597 of 21 April 2005, part of lot 483; previously UK private collection.
Condition:
Some encrustation and discoloration, a small chip to the tip of the beard and the nose, a little damage to the plinth, some surface wear; all as visible on the photographs. The shabti has a beautiful colour.
Price:
€ 1,400
Stock number:
E0663