AN EGYPTIAN GRANODIORITE PAIR STATUE OF THE WAB-PRIEST PIAY AND...
AN EGYPTIAN GRANODIORITE PAIR STATUE OF THE WAB-PRIEST PIAY AND HIS WIFE TAKHARU
SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO NEW KINGDOM, 17TH-EARLY 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1640-1500 B.C.
12 ¾ in. (32.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Valerie Susan, Lady Meux (1852-1910), Theobald’s Park, Hertfordshire, acquired by 1896.
Catalogue d’art de l’Orient: Antiquités classiques et de Haute époque, Égypte-Chine-Indes, A. Mak, Amsterdam, 27 March 1923, lot 134.
with Galerie Yvonne Moreau-Gobard, Paris, 1977.
Guy Delbès (1928-2019), Paris and La Croix-Blanche, France, acquired in the 1980s; thence by descent.
Vente Prestige Mobilier et Objets d'art, Guyenne Enchères, Agen, 4 December 2021, lot 27.
with Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired from the above (Studio, 2022, no. 9; Magma, 2023, no. 11).
Literature
E.A. Wallis Budge, Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux of Theobald’s Park, Waltham Cross, London, 1896, p. 150, no. 68, pl. XIX.
J. Janssen, “La collection Meux,” Chronique d'Egypte, vol. XIX, nos. 37-38, 1944, p. 264.
B. Porter and R.L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, vol. I, pt. I, second edition, Oxford, 1964, p. 796.
S. Connor, Être et paraître : Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850-1550 av. J.-C.), London, 2020, p. 295.
Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database no. 17345.
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AN EGYPTIAN GRANODIORITE PAIR STATUE OF THE WAB-PRIEST PIAY AND HIS WIFE TAKHARU
SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO NEW KINGDOM, 17TH-EARLY 18TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1640-1500 B.C.
12 ¾ in. (32.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Valerie Susan, Lady Meux (1852-1910), Theobald’s Park, Hertfordshire, acquired by 1896.
Catalogue d’art de l’Orient: Antiquités classiques et de Haute époque, Égypte-Chine-Indes, A. Mak, Amsterdam, 27 March 1923, lot 134.
with Galerie Yvonne Moreau-Gobard, Paris, 1977.
Guy Delbès (1928-2019), Paris and La Croix-Blanche, France, acquired in the 1980s; thence by descent.
Vente Prestige Mobilier et Objets d'art, Guyenne Enchères, Agen, 4 December 2021, lot 27.
with Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired from the above (Studio, 2022, no. 9; Magma, 2023, no. 11).
Literature
E.A. Wallis Budge, Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux of Theobald’s Park, Waltham Cross, London, 1896, p. 150, no. 68, pl. XIX.
J. Janssen, “La collection Meux,” Chronique d'Egypte, vol. XIX, nos. 37-38, 1944, p. 264.
B. Porter and R.L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, vol. I, pt. I, second edition, Oxford, 1964, p. 796.
S. Connor, Être et paraître : Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850-1550 av. J.-C.), London, 2020, p. 295.
Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database no. 17345.
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