This facsimile painting copies a wall painting in the tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100) in western Thebes. The detail depicts a carpenter drilling holes in the frame of a low chair with feline legs. A chair of this type (36.3.152) may be seen in Egyptian gallery 116. The carpenter uses a bow-drill and his adze and level lie on the ground behind the chair. A similar adze (96.4.7) may be seen in Egyptian gallery 116. The facsimile was painted at the tomb in 1929 by Nina de Garis Davies, a member of the Graphic Section of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition.

• Provenance

  Painted at Qurna by Nina de Garis Davies for the Graphic Section of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition, 1929. Accessioned 1931.
  
  

• Timeline of Art History (2000–present)
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  Egypt, 2000–1000 B.C.
• MetPublications
  Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles
  [adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 36, no. 4 (Spring, 1979)] (1983)

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 24, no. 4 (December, 1965) (1965)

  Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008 (2009)