The cartonnage mask and mummy trappings were once part of the collection of Princess Maddevi Yukanthor, who was born in 1925 and lives in Paris. The mask was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 5 April 1974 from Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Washington, DC. Smithsonian, CAT number A553190
]]> Mummy mask: 34 cm High x 20 cm x 6 cm
Abdominal trapping: 15.3 cm High x 25.2 cm
Collar: 15.3 cm High x 26.2 cm
Leg cover: 37 cm High x 11.2 cm ]]>
The mast and crew were originally part of another boat, a sailing vessel. Ten figures stand around a central mast, wearing knee-length kilts and short wigs. Their arms are outstretched to adjust the rigging of sails. Kneeling figures sit one at the bow and the other at the stern, facing inward.

A few model solar boats survive from Middle Kingdom tombs at Bersheh and Meir, but they are rare. Their purpose was to help the deceased join Ra in his bark as noted in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Dead which contain the spells “for bringing the great bark of Ra” (Book of the Dead, Spells 102 and 136A).

Ex-collection Henriette Zanon, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, since early 1900s. Purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 3 May 1975.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Cairo, Egyptian Museum, nos. 4949, 4953.
In: Reisner, George Andrew. Models of ships and boats (CG ; 4798-4976. 5034-5200) (Cairo: Impr. de l'IFAO, 1913), pp. 101-102, CG 4949, Pl. XXII, bottom, and 106-107, CG 4953, Pl. XXIV, top (from Bersheh).

Merriman, Ann. Egyptian Watercraft Models from the Predynastic to Third Intermediate Periods. British Archaeological Reports, International Series no. 2263 (Oxford, England, 2011), pp. 401-402, and cat. 206, 207.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 14.3.21.
In: Hayes, William C. 1953. Scepter of Egypt I: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom (Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art), pp. 271-2, fig. 178; 270, fig. 177.

Berkeley, CA, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology houses fragments of a 12th Dynasty model cedar boat from Tebtunis that includes a falcon, PAHMA no 6-20848.]]> Height: 50.8 cm High x 89.3 cm x 15.2 cm]]>
Smen, meaning “goose,” was a member of military unit that served in Syria during the reign of king Thutmose IV. His wife, Hesetre, is shown offering to her parents, Khaset and Ruia. Another stela belonging to Smen is in the Louvre (C202), which gives the name of Smen as well as his wife, Hesetre, and their son Nai.

This stela was acquired by the Louvre at the Hôtel Drouot Sale on March 12-13, 1862, lot number 5. The stela in the Senusret Collection was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 3 March 1975 from Jean-Francois Mignon, who bought and sold objects privately in Aix-en Provence. He started his career under Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> For Louvre C 202, see:
Boreux, Charles 1932. Musée National du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Égyptiennes : guide-catalogue sommaire (Paris: Musées Nationaux), p. 88; Pierret, Paul. Recueil d'inscriptions inédites du Musée Égyptien du Louvre (Paris : Franck, 1874-1878), pt. 2, p. 35. The stela appears in the Hôtel Drouot Sale Catalogue, March 12-13, 1862, no. 5. See also PM VIII, no, 803-045-670]]> 65 cm High x 44 cm x 7 cm]]>
Shabtis were placed in the tomb to serve as surrogate for the king if he was called upon to do manual labor in the hereafter. The mummiform figurine is inscribed with the “shabit text” – Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead – and royal cartouches containing the king’s name, Sety, and his throne name or prenomen, Menmaatra.

The shabti was sold by Jean-Francois Mignon to Georges Ricard on 22 May 1978, who stated the shabti was “found by Belzoni in 1817.” Jean-Francois Mignon, bought and sold objects privately in Aix-en Provence and started his career under Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva. Georges Ricard also acquired several other wooden shabtis of Sety I, including one from the Belmore collection.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Many parallels in Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden; London, British Museum; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rome, Vatican Museum, among others.

Schneider, H. 1977. Shabtis, Part II (Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden), pp. 30-32.
Aubert, J.-F. & L. Aubert 1974. Statuettes Égyptiennes: Chouabtis, Ouchebtis (Paris: Maisonneuve), pp.79-81, pls.12-13.]]> 19.6 cm High x 5.8 cm x 4.1 cm]]>
This cartonnage head has a gilded face, and a polychrome wig, bust and details. The tripartite wig is divided into three registers on either side. At the top are confronting falcons, the middle has representations of the mummy before the seated Osiris, and at the bottom, two sets of the Four Sons of Horus face each other on either side. The top of the wig is crowned with a winged scarab and vulture goddess Nekhbet, both with wings outstretched. Nekhbet wears the atef-crown. To either side of the wig are registers with rosettes, udjat eyes, and various geometric motifs. On the back of the case are the figures of Isis and Nephthys protecting the mummy.

The mask was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 29 May 1972 in Lille, France at the Exceptionnelle vente aux enchères publiques, lot number 9.

[See additional images below]]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> London, Petrie Museum of Archaeology,from Hawara, Egypt, Ptolemaic, 332-330 BC.

Stadler, Martin Andreas 2004. Ägyptische Mumienmasken in Würzburg (Schenkung Gütte). Wiesbaden: Reichert.]]> 45.5 cm High x 30.2 cm x 23.3 cm]]>
The object was once part of the early 20th century collection of Countess Anne de Kerguezec and was purchased by Georges Ricard for the Senusret Collection on 22 September 1974 from Roger F. Galliano, a member of the Conciliation Commission at Central Customs in Paris, certified expert of the Chamber of Auctioneers of France and Judicial Officer of Geneva.]]> Senusret Collection: Usage and Reproduction Rights]]> Allaire Collection of Glass, nos. 44R and 56R
Lucerne, Kofler-Truniger Collection
Ancient Glass, Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection, Christie’s, London, 5-6 March 1985, lot 56]]> 18.8 cm High x 13 cm x 12.7 cm]]> ]]>