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Description : * AN EGYPTIAN WOOD FERTILITY FIGURE
MIDDLE KINGDOM, 11TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2040-1991 B.C.
With a paddle-shaped schematic body, angular shoulders, a rounded
base and rectangular head, both sides painted in black and red, one
side wearing a spotted dress with a line drawing of an animal headed
figure below, probably Taueret, the other side with a broad collar, the
breasts indicated by painted circles above a tunic with diagonal line
decoration, 21.5cm high
Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection, acquired on 20 February 1997.
With Marianne Maspero, Paris, since the 1970s. Accompanied by a
copy of the invoice.
Exhibited:
San Bernardino, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, 2000-2006.
San Antonio Museum of Art, 1997-1999.
Literature:
These fertility figures, also known as ‘paddle dolls’, date primarily to
the Eleventh Dynasty but continue to be made through the Middle
Kingdom and possibly as late as the early Eighteenth Dynasty. It has
been suggested that they served as ‘concubines of the dead’ or
magical implements to assure fertility: Cf. A.K. Capel and G. Markoe,
eds., Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven, Women in Ancient
Egypt, New York, 1996, p. 65, no. 14.
(reverse)
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