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Dolińska, Monika: Looking for the Baste Iret: the Cartonnage from the Collection of Michał Tyszkiewicz
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6. Cartonnage of
Nehemes-Bastet on o damaged
pre war
photograph
The National Museum
Worsow
datę, a golden finger ring of the royal
secretary Hormes, with an image of
Bastet-Hathor and cartouches of Osor-
kon,6 also found its way to the Louvre,
offered by Michał Tyszkiewicz with
nearly two hundred other Egyptian
works of art. This ring probably comes
from Bubastis, but it cannot be exclud-
ed that it turned up in Thebes for
instance as a family souvenir.
The cartonnage of Nehemes-Bastet,
like many other Egyptian objects (the
papyrus of Bakai, for instance, also dis-
covered during those clandestine exca-
vations), was sent to Łohojsk - the seat
of the Tyszkiewicz family, owned by
Konstanty Tyszkiewicz, Count Michafs
uncle. Konstanty created a museum at
Łohojsk in 1842 and until 1907 one
could have admired a showcase filled
with Egyptian antiąuities.7 Władys-
ław Wankie, a journalist, described its
contents in 1907 and mentioned “a
mummy, unfortunately already opened”
and “a beautiful papyrus, admirably
preserved”.8 The grandson of Konstan-
ty, Józef, the owner of Łohojsk sińce
1897, moved the Egyptian objects to
Vilnius in 1910 and planned to establish
a new museum there. Ełis death in 1914
halted these plans. In 1915, Józef’s
widów, Krystyna Brandt-Tyszkiewicz,
donated these objects to the Art Society
“Zachęta” in Warsaw.9 In 1919 they
went to the National Museum in Warsaw
together with the rest of Łohojsk collection, which had been donated to “Zachę-
ta” by another member of the Tyszkiewicz family. In this way the cartonnage,
6 Louvre inv. no. E 3717; cf. Tanis. L'Or des Pharaons, exh. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du
Grand Palais, Marseille, Centre de la Yieille Charite, Paris 1987, p. 176.
7 Cf. A. Majewska, “La collection egyptienne des Tyszkiewicz de Łohojsk au Musee National de
Varsovie”, in Essays... op. cit., p. 174 and footnote 14.
s W Wankie, “Muzeum Łohojskie”, Świat, 1907, 35, p. 10.
9 A. Snitkuviene, “Lithuanian Collections of Count Michał Tyszkiewicz and His Family”, in
Essays... op.cit., pp. 237-238.
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Nehemes-Bastet on o damaged
pre war
photograph
The National Museum
Worsow
datę, a golden finger ring of the royal
secretary Hormes, with an image of
Bastet-Hathor and cartouches of Osor-
kon,6 also found its way to the Louvre,
offered by Michał Tyszkiewicz with
nearly two hundred other Egyptian
works of art. This ring probably comes
from Bubastis, but it cannot be exclud-
ed that it turned up in Thebes for
instance as a family souvenir.
The cartonnage of Nehemes-Bastet,
like many other Egyptian objects (the
papyrus of Bakai, for instance, also dis-
covered during those clandestine exca-
vations), was sent to Łohojsk - the seat
of the Tyszkiewicz family, owned by
Konstanty Tyszkiewicz, Count Michafs
uncle. Konstanty created a museum at
Łohojsk in 1842 and until 1907 one
could have admired a showcase filled
with Egyptian antiąuities.7 Władys-
ław Wankie, a journalist, described its
contents in 1907 and mentioned “a
mummy, unfortunately already opened”
and “a beautiful papyrus, admirably
preserved”.8 The grandson of Konstan-
ty, Józef, the owner of Łohojsk sińce
1897, moved the Egyptian objects to
Vilnius in 1910 and planned to establish
a new museum there. Ełis death in 1914
halted these plans. In 1915, Józef’s
widów, Krystyna Brandt-Tyszkiewicz,
donated these objects to the Art Society
“Zachęta” in Warsaw.9 In 1919 they
went to the National Museum in Warsaw
together with the rest of Łohojsk collection, which had been donated to “Zachę-
ta” by another member of the Tyszkiewicz family. In this way the cartonnage,
6 Louvre inv. no. E 3717; cf. Tanis. L'Or des Pharaons, exh. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du
Grand Palais, Marseille, Centre de la Yieille Charite, Paris 1987, p. 176.
7 Cf. A. Majewska, “La collection egyptienne des Tyszkiewicz de Łohojsk au Musee National de
Varsovie”, in Essays... op. cit., p. 174 and footnote 14.
s W Wankie, “Muzeum Łohojskie”, Świat, 1907, 35, p. 10.
9 A. Snitkuviene, “Lithuanian Collections of Count Michał Tyszkiewicz and His Family”, in
Essays... op.cit., pp. 237-238.
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