EARTHENWARE VASE-BEARING STATUETTE Egyptian art, late Third Intermediate Period or early Late Period, 7th-6th century BC Blue-green earthenware statuette known as a "talisman of happy maternity" depicting a standing nude woman, her body enhanced with black painted details, carrying a vase on her left shoulder decorated with a Udjat eye and her head capped with a mitre. Height Height : 16.5 cm Provenance: Galerie Kevorkian, Paris Collection of an amateur from Marseilles, acquired in 2012 Bibliography: Bulté Jeanne, Talismans égyptiens d'heureuse maternité. "Faïence" bleu-vert à pois foncés, Editions du CNRS, Paris, 1991: pl. 31d, doc 168 Barcat Dominique and Kousoulis Panagiotis, "Les vases et figurines en faïence entre Rhodes et le Delta : contexte artistique et usages funéraires", Revue archéologique, vol. 68, no. 2, 2019, p. 337, fig. 5. An Egyptian faience figure "talisman of happy motherhood", late Third Intermediate Period or early Late Period, 7th-6th century B.C.