Lot 3
Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. An exceedingly rare faience figure of a nude woman with arms draped gently at her sides and delineated thighs tracing up to her black-painted pubis. The figure is covered in smooth turquoise pigment as well as lighter blue pigment that form bangles on her biceps as well as a wesekh collar atop her clavicle. She faces ever forward, her gaze affixed in the distance while plump lips and full cheeks compose her feminine visage. A thick wig rests low on her forehead with large lateral tufts of hair as well as a sidelock reminiscent of the child Horus, suggesting this may be a youthful effigy. Though historically considered as a concubine, other excavated examples are believed to be maternity figures, perhaps an assistant to a queen during birth similar to what is mentioned in the Westcar Papyrus. Size: 0.83" L x 1.34" W x 4.09" H (2.1 cm x 3.4 cm x 10.4 cm)
Cf. another example at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 08.200.18
Provenance: Collection of Dr. W. Benson Harer, Los Angeles, California, USA, purchased in September 2014; ex-Arte Primitivo auction, New York (September 2014, lot 400); ex-private Connecticut, USA collection; ex-private collection, Ruhr Valley, Germany; ex-Gawain McKinley collection, London, UK, acquired prior to 1980
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- Condition: Light abrasions and fading to surface pigment commensurate with age, with softening to some finer details, light earthen deposits, and small chips in scattered areas, otherwise intact and excellent. Wonderful preservation to feminine form and painted decorations, and fantastic craquelure throughout.
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