Three Egyptian polychrome painted wood canopic box panels
Ptolemaic Period, circa 332-30 B.C.
Originally part of the same canopic box, one panel formed of two fragments and depicting a winged Horus wearing a sun-disc, another panel formed of two fragments and depicting the deceased standing before Duamutef and Imsety, his left hand raised in adoration and holding the tyet knot in his right, two text panels in the field naming the gods, both of the larger fragments with chequerboard and serekh pattern below the central scene, and a row of feather bundles(?) above, the third smaller fragmentary panel depicting Osiris standing before a large djed pillar and lotus flower, wearing the Double Crown and holding a crook and flail, a panel of text in the field reading 'words spoken by Osiris', a winged sun-disc above, remains of text on the yellow border, remains of red, yellow, black, white and blue pigment, some original pegs and peg holes remaining, panels 46cm long max.; frame 62cm wide x 52cm high注脚Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland, 1970s.
Anonymous sale; Schuler Auktionen, Zurich, June 2011, lot 1024.
Private collection, Geneva, acquired from the above sale.

For a canopic falcon box with similar desgins, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 12.182.5a–c.