Provenance Information

Ex private collection, United States, purchased from Bonhams London, September 22, 1998, lot 22. With Sue McGovern-Huffman [Sands of Time Antiquities], Washington, DC (unsold).

Exhibition Information

MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - March 30, 2015
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, July 10, 2024 - Present

Publication Information

Bonhams Knightsbridge, Antiquities (September 22, 1998), 8, number 22.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

NA

Provenance Information

Archaeological findspot unknown. By 1988, said to have been with Jean-Loup Despras (d. 2001), Galerie Orient-Occident, Paris. 1988-1989, Mark Bronson (Bronson Fine Art), Santa Monica, CA. 1989-2022, Dubroff Collection, acquired from Sotheby’s, New York, (“Antiquities and Islamic Art,” November 29, 1989, Lot 163). 2022, Worcester Art Museum, gift of Lewis and Elaine Dubroff.

Exhibition Information

Exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1989 to 2022.

Publication Information

Sotheby’s, New York, "Antiquities and Islamic Art," November 29, 1989, Lot 163.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This object has a known provenance dating to 1989, when it was sold at public auction in New York. It has a credible reported provenance dating back to 1988, for which written documentation has not yet been found. Provenance research is ongoing. Prior to its acquisition by the Worcester Art Museum, it was on public display from 1989 to 2022 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

This object adds significantly to the Worcester Art Museum’s collection of Egyptian antiquities. As a late Ptolemaic example, it bridges the temporal gulf between the Museum's other two Egyptian sarcophagi, one dated to the New Kingdom, the other to the Roman period. Its richly painted surface, which includes scenes of mummification and the deceased's voyage through the afterlife, adds considerably to the Museum’s presentation of ancient Egyptian beliefs and funerary practices.

Provenance Information

Archaeological findspot unknown.

By 1971, European private collection, said to have been acquired from Galerie Maspero, Paris.

Before June 12, 2003, Belgian private collection, acquired from the above.

2003-2022, Dubroff Collection, acquired from Sotheby’s, New York, NY (“Antiquities,” June 12, 2003, Lot 115).

2022, Worcester Art Museum, gift of Lewis and Elaine Dubroff.

Exhibition Information

Exhibited at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, from 2003 to 2022.

Publication Information

Sotheby’s, New York, "Antiquities," June 12, 2003, lot 115 (pages 112-113).

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This object has a known provenance dating to 2003, when it was sold at public auction in New York. It has a credible reported provenance dating back to 1971, for which written documentation has not yet been found. Provenance research is ongoing. Prior to its acquisition by the Worcester Art Museum, it was on public display from 2003 to 2022 at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.

This object adds significantly to the Worcester Art Museum’s collection of Egyptian antiquities. It is earlier in date and of a different material than the Museum’s two other Egyptian sarcophagi, both cartonnage and dating to the late Ptolemaic and Roman periods.