THREE EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTIS Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 1096-945 B.C. Including a combination overseer and worker shabti wearing a large apron, with one arm by his side and the other holding two implements, inscribed with ‘The Osiris’, 9cm high; another example carrying hoes, inscribed for ‘Pasebakhaenniut’, 9.4cm high; and one uninscribed with details of the implements, fillet, eyes and seed-bad added in black paint, 10.3cm high (3) Provenance: Irish deceased estate of an archaeologist, formed prior to 1965. Literature: The Pasebakhaenniut shabti, cf. H.D. Schneider, Shabtis, Part II, Leiden, 1977, p. 126, no. 4.3.1.37-38.