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LOT 0622
Egyptian Agate Portrait Cameo with Taenia
GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (4.77 grams, 26 mm).
Ellipsoid plaque with reserved high-relief profile bust, wearing a diadem in the hair. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
FootnotesEgyptian-style or Hellenistic/Ptolemaic agate cameos featuring a portrait bust bound with a taenia (a narrow fillet or headband) typically represent a royal or divine figure from the Graeco-Roman or Ptolemaic period in Egypt.
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LOT 0622
Egyptian Agate Portrait Cameo with Taenia
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Phoenician Lapis Lazuli Scarab in Gold Swivel Ring
6th-4th century B.C. and laterEstimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £600
With lightly incised anatomical detailing to the scarab; the underside with a central cartouche flanked by two rearing crowned uraei, a pair of falcons standing above the cartouche facing a smꜣ hieroglyph symbolising union (of the two lands, Upper and Lower Egypt); set into a later gold swivel ring. 4.34 grams, 26.44 mm overall, 15.68 mm internal diameter (approximate size British J 1/2, USA 5, Europe 9.32, Japan 9)
with Bonhams, London, UK, 21 October 1999, no.36. Private collection, Europe. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12370-226696. -
Egyptian Turquoise and Cobalt Blue Faience Amphora
Roman Period, circa 2nd century A.D.Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £4,000
Barrel-shaped in profile, with a stepped shoulder, wide neck, and broad, flared flange rim at the mouth, supported by two lateral strap handles; applied wreath decoration to the outer edge of the shoulder and vertical fronds to the lower body; restored. 1.48 kg, 17.8 cm high
Stift Neuberg (Neuberg Abbey) collection, Heidelberg, Germany, by 1893 and into the 20th century. Anonymous sale; Münzen und Medaillen, Auktion 41, 1972, no.151. Fiorella Cottier-Angeli collection, Geneva, 1981-2007. Herbert A. Cahn, acquired from the above. With Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 2007. Private collection, Midwest USA, acquired in 2007. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13477-262436.
Stift Neuberg was privately owned from 1798 until 1926. By 1893, a collection of antiquities had been assembled there, and its Greek and Roman holdings were published. It is believed that the amphora was acquired as part of this collection by Friedrich Alexander von Bernus (1838–1908), who inherited Stift Neuberg from his relative Johann Friedrich Schlosser (1780-1851), a nephew of Goethe. In 1926, the abbey was sold to the Benedictines and has remained a religious establishment ever since. -
Egyptian Terracotta Mould with Impression of the Cartouche of Pharaoh Ramesses II
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, circa 1237-1235 B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Oblate type with an impressed cartouche recording the sixth Heb-Sed (jubilee) of Ramesses II. 27.4 grams, 46 mm
Acquired 7th February 1962. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.85.
By the time of Ramesses II, the royal Heb-Sed festival was already about two thousand years old. He celebrated his first Heb-Sed in his 30th year and his sixth in his 45th year.
