LOT 58 Egyptian Wooden Princess Figurine
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Early New Kingdom, 1569-1480 B.C. A carved wooden figure of a princess advancing, wearing a Broad Collar, tripartite wig and uraeus to the brow; fly whisk held in the left hand across the chest; pierced below the lappet of the wig; mounted on a custom-made display stand. Cf. Barbotin, C., Les statues égyptiennes du Nouvel empire statues royales et divines, Planches, Paris, 2007, pp.154-159, for a 19th Dynasty wooden statuette of Ahmose-Nefertari. 160 grams, 23 cm (292 grams total, 24.5 cm including stand) (9 in. (9 5/8 in.)). Acquired in the 1960s. From the collection of the late Egyptologist Surgeonmander PHK Gray RN. From a Surrey, UK, collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate no.11295-192738. The distinctive tripartite wig which leaves a gap behind the neck is a characteristic style for royal ladies of the late Second Intermediate Period-early 18th Dynasty, the most well-known being Ahmose-Nefertari, wife of the pharaoh Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty. Many two- and three-dimensional archaising representations of Ahmose-Nefertari wearing a more elaborate version of this wig survive from the 19th Dynasty, when she was worped as a deity. However, the treatment of the face places this statuette earlier.
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