Art Analysis: Offering Bearer

For my art analysis essay, I decided to analyze the statue name “Offering Bearer” located in the Egyptian gallery 105 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This statue’s artist is unknown, it belongs to the Dynasty 2, early reign of Amenemhat I (ca. 1981-1975 B.C.), its dimensions are H: 112 (44 1/8 inches), W: 17cm (6 11/16 inches) and D: 46.7cm (18 3/8 inches). This Egyptian statues material used are wood, gesso and paint. The museum provides a brief description about the Offering Bearer saying that two statues of female offering bearers were discovered in the model chamber of the chief Steward Meketre, and that this specific statue stood against the chambers east wall. It mentions that the decoration of the garment of this statue was inspired by the feathers of a bird, possibly a falcon. Lastly it is said that figures of women carrying
It immediately caught my attention because there’s a lot you can describe/analyze from this statue. It’s large in size, it’s colorful, the colors used for dressed were very well match in my opinion, they match with her wrist, ankle and neck collar/bracelets, I believe that was a successful combination. The only thing that I didn’t personally didn’t find attractive in the statue was the oversize ears on her, the fact that they hold the hair back, yes it does show a better face expression but they also stand out a lot, other than that I chose this sculpture because it was different from other Egyptian sculptures. It wasn’t’ carved on limestone which would have also lack of color and detail. The offering bearer sculpture was made on wood, with beautiful use of paint. This sculpture made me appreciate art, tourists/visitors at the museum were impressed by the sculpture as well, you can see them admiring it, people talking about it, I felt the same way, all in all, this is a great piece of art