Description
Inscriptions indicate Userhat was an artisan with the title, Chief of the Bronze Workers. Steatite is a relatively soft stone and was often used by the Egyptians for small sculpture.
Provenance
D. Fouquet, Cairo, by 1922, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Fouquet Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12-14 March 1922, p. 1, no. 4 [said to be from Thebes]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.