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Discoid palette with rounded underside and flat base, dished central field, flat rim with four radiating trapezoidal projections. 450 grams, 16.4 cm



Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00038135.

Designs include: a tripartite design with ankh, water, nwb, and men signs, with indistinct cartouches possibly of Thutmose III, and signs spelling the phrase 'powerful is the justice of Re' (user-Maat-Re); a line border enclosing the stylised depiction of a striding figure grasping a crocodile, with a neb sign below; a line border enclosing a multitude of signs, including Thutmose III’s throne name (men-kheper-Re), and that of Amun; a line border enclosing central Hathoric sistrum; a line border enclosing a symmetrical motif in contrasting black glaze. 10.6 grams total, 13-19 mm



Acquired on the European art market in the early 2000s. With Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland.

Formed as a poppy seed with flaring terminals. 0.95 grams, 9 mm



Ex early 20th century French collection.

The central blue-and-yellow polychrome faience mummiform figure, set in a nineteenth-century gold brooch, is flanked by two Egyptianising attendants, with a winged sun-disc motif below and a pin fitting on the reverse. 4.24 grams, 24 mm



Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.

Comprising: a lozenge-shaped ring with a triangular raised extension with serrated edges; a D-section hoop with a raised facetted bezel and a central boss. 4.33 grams total, 21-30 mm



Ex Carl Leonhard Burckhardt-Reinhard (1902-1965), formed since 1922, Egypt. Inherited by his son, Christopher Burckhardt, in 1966, Switzerland. Since then in the possession of his wife, Switzerland.

Comprising tubular, discoid, shell, and other beads, in a vintage 'Ronson' lighter box. 23 grams total, 1-17 mm



Excavated from Egypt in 1914. From the private collection of Mr David Sams and his wife Elizabeth Kate Sams, gentry and amateur archaeologists who travelled to Egypt in 1914 with their daughter Ethel. Mr Sams and his wife led digging expeditions from which these items come from the family estate of Mr and Mrs Sams, by direct descent to their granddaughter.

Modelled in the round, wearing the white crown and a divine beard, with arms bent and hands clasped knuckle-to-knuckle, holding Osiris's royal regalia - the crook and flail; accompanied by a typed inventory; mounted on a custom-made stand with an old handwritten label on the underside 'Osiris (Judge of the Dead) Solid Bronze B.C. 1600. Lord Grenfell's Collection'. 295 grams total, 15.7 cm high including stand



Ex Lord Grenfell's (1896-1926) collection, UK. From the estate of a deceased Sussex private collector. Accompanied by an original typed 'List of Egyptian Relics' in which this object is listed as no.1.

Comprising: grey scarab with gold mounting pin, frame and loop, three panels on the underside with ankh and other motifs; grey scarab with traces of turquoise surface, gold mounting pin and loop, hieroglyphs on the underside; cream scarab with gold mounting pin and loop, frieze of three figures on the underside, the middle figure wearing an atef crown. 9.85 grams total, 24-32 mm



Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. Accompanied by the collector's original inked images.

Large section of a shoulder from a man's tunic in wool on linen, decorated with a long purple clavus featuring geometric squares and a purple orbiculus on the shoulder; tapestry, weave braids with right-angled borders. 233 grams total including paper folder, 82 cm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.

The tunic was decorated in purple with opus phrygium embroidery. This corresponds to the iconography of military tunics for 5th-7th century Roman soldiers. The archaeological evidence from the desert cemeteries of Egypt offers striking confirmation of pictorial sources on late Roman clothing around the empire.

Mummiform figure with a high-relief bag wig, a top sash band, facial details, tools, a seed bag, and hieroglyphs on the lower body in black. 42 grams, 11.6 cm



with a privately curated collection, 1980s-early 2000s. From the private collection and estate of Christine Simons (1943-2025), West Midlands, UK.

Rectangular fragment of papyrus with inked Demotic script text in two columns; mounted on a board. 195 grams total, 15.5 cm (25 x 20 cm including frame)



Ex retired East Anglian school teacher, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, UK, 1960s-1980s.

D-shaped in section with mummy wrapping to the body, exposed face with curls of hair. 6.14 grams, 44 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.