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Carpenter Making a Chair, Tomb of Rekhmire

New Kingdom
ca. 1479–1396 BCE
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Carpenter Making a Chair, Tomb of Rekhmire
  • Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965)
  • Period: New Kingdom
  • Dynasty: Dynasty 18
  • Reign: reign of Thutmose III–Amenhotep II
  • Date: ca. 1479–1396 BCE
  • Geography: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100)
  • Medium: Tempera on paper
  • Dimensions: facsimile: h. 30 cm (11 13/16 in); w. 41 cm (16 1/8 in); scale 1:1; framed: h. 33 cm (13 in); w. 44.5 cm (17 1/2 in)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1931
  • Object Number: 31.6.29
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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