Furniture Parts

1973.1.594

Information

Furniture parts (chair struts?). Papyrus head ending in peg, pierced, painted and gilded. Annotation in red on some "Gurob" like how other items from the Robert de Rustafjaell collection are marked. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 19-21 December 1906, lot 152/24: "Various objects of wood; a scribe's pen-case of leather; figures of the sacred hawk (Plate XVII,10,11); supports of chairs, etc.". CONDITION NOTE (1998): Dry, some splitting, surface loss, surface dirt, labels adhered to surface.