Lot 690
Superbly Colored Intense Blue Ushabti. Egypt, XXIst Dynasty, c. 1069-945 B.C. The mumiform figure, with tripart lappet wig, stands with arms crossed at wrists, all covered in a choice dark turquoise blue glassy glaze. Over painted in a violet-black glaze are: the inscription running down along the front, the eyes, the knotted headband, the pick and hoe, and lastly, the seed basket hanging on the back. Pristine and superbly preserved. Height: 3-7/8". Museum quality!
Estimated Value $1,250 - 1,750.
This ushabti probably comes from the so called Second Cache at Deir el-Bahari. This was a large cache of the mummies and funerary equipment of the priests of Amun, found by the Abdul Rassoul family late in the 19th century. The Abdul Rassoul family had been removing and selling items from the cache for some time before it was revealed to the authorities. Thus, a large number of the smaller, portable objects, such as ushabtis were widely distributed through the antiquities trade. It is called the Second Cache because the First Cache was that of a group of royal mummies, also found by the Abdul Rassoul family, and formally declared in 1881 (this included a number of the great pharaohs, such as Tutmoses III, Seti I, Ramses the Great, etc). The basic list of the coffins, mummies, ushabtis, and other items from the Second Cache was published by G. Daressy in Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, volume. 8, 1907, pp. 3-38.
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| Realized $2,530 |
