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LOT 2504
Bronze Age Style and Other Artefact Group
20TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 - 5 5/8 in. (205 grams total, 4.1-14.3 cm).
Mixed group of artefacts, including a key, an axehead, a radiate-headed brooch, a buckle and a section of a blade. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2504
Bronze Age Style and Other Artefact Group
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Renaissance Carved Marble Relief Medallion of Prudence
Probably South German, possibly Nuremberg, circa 1540–1600 A.D.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
A circular relief medallion carved with two opposed, conjoined profiles: an elderly bearded man facing left and a young woman facing right, representing Prudence, or Prudentia, in janiform form, combining memory and experience with foresight. 22.85 grams, 56 mm
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.
The subject belongs to the Renaissance tradition of allegorical medallions and plaquettes. A closely related representation of Prudence is in Peter Flötner’s Nuremberg series of the Virtues, made circa 1540–1546. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Prudence. -
Large Egyptian Style Bronze Osiris by Morris Singer Foundry
20th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Osiris represented in his most usual form in a closely fitting cloak as a swathed mummy, holding the crook and the flail in his hands, the long beard neatly braided, wearing the Atef crown with incised plumes on either side; standing on a high integral base inscribed in hieroglyphs with a prayer addressed to the god: 'Osiris, who is (in the West), may he give life (to) Amen-en-Nyut, son of Ipa-dy-su, born of the Mistress of the House, Ta-Horbes'. 6.2 kg, 43.5 cm high
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by a copy of the sales booklet, which, in Peter's hand, reads: 'Written and illustrated by Peter Clayton'.
The original of this high-quality bronze casting is a black basalt figure of the Egyptian god Osiris, beautifully carved in the 26th Dynasty in the reign of the Pharaoh Psammetichus I (664-610 BC). -
Group of After the Antique Stone Intaglios
20th century A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising an octagonal with a lion passant regardant, a rectangular with a face in profile, an oval with a standing archer, four oval with male bust in profile, a rectangular with a crowned male bust. 6.84 grams total, 9-18 mm
London, UK, collection, 1990s.
