An Egyptian Blue Faience Ushabti for Tayuheret
Sale 1273 - Antiquities & Ancient Art: Including Property from the Brummer Collection
Dec 5, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$4,725
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Lot Description
An Egyptian Blue Faience Ushabti for Tayuheret
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 B.C.
Height 4 1/2 inches (11.4 cm).
Property from the Harer Family Trust Collection
Provenance
Emile Brugsch (1842-1930), curator of the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.
Private Collection. [Inv. no. 36.3.31]
Christie's, Tokyo, Anonymous Sale, 11 February 1980, Lot 656.
Excavated in 1881, Bab el-Gasus also known as the Priestly Cache and the Second Cache, was a cache of the ancient 21st dynasty Egyptian mummies at Deir el Bahri (DB.320). Tayuheret was Chief of the Harem of Amun Ra and was the wife of Masaharta.
Condition Report
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