Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 102-103. (Budapest, 2005)
ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection
Löwy was the first to become a full professor of archaeology at the University of Rome, see R. H. Armstrong, "The Archaeology of Freud's Archaeology: Recent Work in the History of Psychoanalysis," The International Review of Modernism 3, no. 1 (1999), 18. This review-article is also available on the website <www.hfac.uh.edu/mcl/faculty/ armstrong/home/marinelli.html> citing Emanuel Löwy: Ein vergessener Pionier, Kataloge der archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Wien, Sonderheft 1, ed. F. Brein, Vienna 1998. For Demel, see Who Was Who in Egyptology, ed. ALJ. Bierbrier, London 19953, 121-22. These notes could be accessed now in the Freud Museum, London. Objects for which there are no authentication notes at our disposal could have been discussed on face-to-face meetings with experts. An appointment of this kind with Demel was recorded in Freud's diary of his last months (Kürzeste Chronik): Sunday, 15 November 1936; cf. Freud and Grubrich-Simitis 1978, 270, fig. 311. For the edition of Kürzeste Chronik, see The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939. A Chronicle of Events in the Last Decade, M. Molnar, London 1992 (unfortunately inaccessible to me). This is, of course, not to condemn the experts of those times, rather a natural outcome of the technological innovations in the field of dating and of our ever-growing knowledge and familiarity with forged antiquities, including the history;' and practice of forging. An interview with Lustig (5 September 1988, New York), cited by Lynn Gamwell in her excellent treatment of the origins of Freud's antiquities collection, see L. Gamwell, "The origins of Freud's antiquities collection," in Gamwell and Wells 1989, 30, n. 16. See the remarks on Freud's manuscript catalogue, an invaluable source of information but evidently mislaid after the death of the collector: Reeves, in Gamwell and Wells 1989, 32. New acquisitions mentioned among the short entries in Freud's chronicle (Kürzeste Chronik) imply that he may have rigorously recorded every single item received. See, e.g., Friday, 11 October 1936: a new horse; Thursday, 23 June 1938: Princess-Cypriote head; Saturday, 25 June 1938: Mrs Gunn with Egyptian antiquity; see Freud and Grubrich-Simitis 1978, fig. 328. For instance, a letter sent by Sándor Ferenczi makes an allusion to an Osiris figurine (possibly of Roman origin) that he managed to hunt out: Sigmund Freud - Ferenczi Sándor: Levelezés III/2 (1925-1933) [Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi: Correspondence III/2 (1925-1933)], trans. Gábor Berényi, Budapest 2005, 255, letter no. 1186 from Ferenczi. The group seems to comprise six more wooden statuettes depicting males in different postures. Their affinity 7 is based mainly on similarities in the manner of execution, surface treatment, the shape of the body, the type of the wig they wear and the specific colouring that stands out in sharp contrast to other wooden sculpture in the same place, especially to the genuine model scene of ploughing that Freud purchased in 1936 to celebrate the 50th jubilee of his professional career.
