This is a beautiful composite shabti with well defined details and a lovely, warm turquoise-green colour. His smiling face gives him an enormous "presence".

He is wearing a tripartite wig and has a plaited beard. He is holding pick and hoe in his rather large, crossed hands, and he has a seed back over his proper left shoulder. The shabti has a back pillar and plinth.

There are no inscriptions, so unfortunately we will never know who this smiling person was.

Dating: Late Period, after 600 B.C.

Dimensions: Height 11.3 cm without base, 14.9 cm including base. The shabti has a beautiful colour.

Provenance: Belgian private collection PDS; previously with Bonhams, sale 11597 of 21 April 2005, part of lot 483; previously UK private collection.

This lot will be sold not subject to a reserve. The starting price is the price at which the item can sell.

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Some encrustation and discoloration, a small chip to the tip of the beard and the nose, a little damage to the plinth, some surface wear; all as visible on the photographs.