Property from a French Private Collection
An Egyptian Pale Green Faience Ushabti of Neferibresaneith, 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis, 570-526 B.C.
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
An Egyptian Pale Green Faience Ushabti of Neferibresaneith, 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis, 570-526 B.C.
wab priest of the king, Royal Chancellor of Lower Egypt, Administrator of the Palace, and son of Shepen-bastet, holding the hoe, pick, and seed-sack over his left shoulder, and wearing a braided beard with curled tip and striated tripartite wig, his face finely modelled, the nine lines of inscription beginning and ending at the back pillar.
Height 18.8cm., 7¼in.
Françoise Schlumberger-Primat (1917-1998), Château de Grandchamp, Calvados, France, acquired in the 1960s or earlier;
by descent to the present owner.
The tomb of Neferibresaneith was found in 1929 at Saqqara, south of the funerary complex of King Userkaf. In all, 336 ushabtis were found, most of them resting on the lid of the stone sarcophagus under the carbonized wood box; the Service des antiquités de l'Égypte allocated part of the group to the Cairo Museum and sold the rest through its salerooms (J.-F. and L. Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes. Chaouabtis, ouchebtis, 1974, p. 230).
For other examples sold at auction in the past two decades, see Sotheby's, New York, June 13th, 2002, lot 29, December 6th, 2006, lot 76, December 5th, 2007, lot 29, December 8th, 2015, lot 21, Christie's, New York, April 29th, 2019, lot 111, April 12th, 2022, lot 21, and Artcurial, Paris, May 15th, 2019, lot 177.
Also see A. Wiese, Égypte, moments d'éternité, 1997, no. 160, and Getty Research Journal, no. 10, 2018, pp. 191-206 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/26555881).
