Sobre el lote Lote N° 44
Título : Blue Faience Ushabti
Talla : height 6 1/2 in. 16.5 cm.Procedencia : from Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Royal Cache (DB 320)Sotheby & Co., London, July 10th, 1972, no. 8Texas private collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 17th, 1978, no. 204, illus.)Literature : Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, 1981, p. 28, illus.Notas : For another example see Schneider, Shabtis, part III, pl. 47, no. 4.3.0.6. See also Janes, Shabtis, no. 53, p. 103, the author notes that Nesy-khonsu was a daughter of Smendes II and also niece of Pinudjem II, both of whom were successive high-priests of Amen at Thebes who ruled that part of Egypt during the 21st Dynasty. Nesy-khonsu was perhaps a favoured member of the harem of Pinudjem II as she became his first wife. On the discovery of the Royal Cache at Deir el-Bahri in 1871, including Nesy-khonsu's ushabtis, and the later appearance on the market of rare and, from the point of view of the history of religion, highly significant inscribed boards from her ushabti box, now in the Louvre and at the British Museum, see Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes, pp. 139-149.Sotheby's, subastador, New York, US
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Título de venta : The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art
Fecha de la venta : 08/12/2004
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Referencia de la subasta : Live Sale
