An Egyptian bright blue glazed composition shabti of typical form holding a pick and hoe with a seed-bag over the left shoulder, with double T-crossbar hieroglyphic text in darker blue, Ptolemaic Period, circa 300 B.C., 17cm high Provenance: Private collection UK, gifted to the present owner's father by Spink and Sons circa 1952, and by repute acquired in 1910 by the then Bishop of Cairo who was a keen amateur Egyptologist. Please refer to department for condition report