19th Dynasty, 1303-1200 B.C. A vibrant deep blue-glazedposition shabti fragment from a royal shabti of pharaoh Seti I, bearing three registers of cartouches including examples reading 'Menmaatri' (prenomen) and 'Seti Merenptah' (nomen of Seti I)'; the fragment isposed of a tapering lentoid-section body with '2000 N. F40' inked by hand to the top face. 25 grams, 38mm (46 grams total, 97 mm including stand) (1 1/2 in. (3 7/8 in.)). From the Valley of the Kings, found by Giovanni Belzoni. From an old UK collection. Acquired Christie's, King Street, London, 11 July 1990, lot 327. From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016), keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent. Apanied by the original Christie's and correspondence. Apanied by an identification display card. Apanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt. The King's finely inscribed sarcophagus is in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Alf Baxendale (1941-2016), was a keen amateur Egyptologist, active from the 1960s. He was a good friend of Egyptologist Barry John Kemp who directs excavations at Amarna in Egypt. Alf helped raise funds for equipment and materials for the excavations since the 1980s, and also secured a major sponsor from one of Britain’s leading brewers, Scottish and Newcastle. He was a member of the Egyptology Society, and became a founder trustee of the Amarna Trust in 2005. Alf bequeathed a major part of his extensive library to the Amarna Project’s offices in Cairo. [No Reserve]