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Description : An Egyptian wood walking staff Middle Kingdom, circa 2046-1793 B.C.Of cylindrical form, the curved handle with shallow conical top, 118.1cm long Provenance:with R. H. Blanchard, Cairo. Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925), acquired from the above 1906. The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, inv. no. 06.210. Property of the Toledo Museum of Art, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund, Sotheby's, New York, 25 June 1992, lot 260 (part lot). Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 June 2006, lot 66. Private collection. Published:Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities brought together and presented to The Toledo Museum of Art by Mr Edward Drummond Libbey, President of the Museum, Toledo, 1906, no. 210.Different forms of walking staffs are known to have been used in Egyptian times, both from archaeological survivals and from representations in tomb decorations, see H. G. Fischer, 'Notes on Sticks and Staves in Ancient Egypt', in Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 13, 1978, pp.5-32. For a similar curved walking staff see the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 27.3.47.
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