Model Boat
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Found in an early tomb, our boat and rowers served to magically transport the resurrected deceased on a Nile flowing through the hereafter. The boat heads north: mast down, the rowers are at work.
Although the boat's function is practical, its hull is elegant and graceful, a fine work of art.
For more sculptures that were meant to come to life and serve the spirit of the deceased, see the statuettes on the wall to your right.
Possibly found in Meir [1];
With F. Schnittjer and Son, New York, by October 18, 1940 [2];
Purchased from Schnittjer by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. N4682, October 18, 1940-February 24, 1941;
Purchased from Brummer Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.
NOTES:
[1] Ann Merriman, “Egyptian Watercraft Models from the Predynastic to Third Intermediate Periods,” British Archaeological Reports, International Series (2011), 368 cat. 504.
[2] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archives, Brummer Gallery Records, Egyptian, Object inventory card number N4682.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 23.
Ann Merriman, “Egyptian Watercraft Models from the Predynastic to Third Intermediate Periods,” (PhD diss., University College London, 2010), 230-31, 600, no. 503.
Ann Merriman, “Egyptian Watercraft Models from the Predynastic to Third Intermediate Periods,” BAR (British Archaeological Reports] International Series 2263 (2011): no. 504.
