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LOT 0033
Egyptian Alabaster Trussed Duck
OLD KINGDOM, 6TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2345-2181 B.C.
4 3/4 in. (891 grams total, duck: 12.2 cm long).
Delicately carved in the round with the head and neck laid backwards along the spine, the eyes recessed for inlays (absent); mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenancePrivate French collection acquired before 1970.
Bonhams Antiquities, 29 April 2009, no.58 (sold for £5,400.00).
Bonhams Antiquities, 23 October 2013, no.8 (sold for £7,500.00).
Prince collection, UK, 2013-2017.
Accompanied by a French passport no.099505.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12942-245247.
Cf. Seipel, W., Ägypten. Götter, Gräber und die Kunst – 4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube, Linz, 1989, p. 71, nos. 40a and 40b, for two closely comparable examples.
FootnotesSmall statuettes of ducks, prepared for cooking, were created to provide imperishable offerings for the tomb. These birds appeared in almost every offering list and were depicted being brought to the tomb by offering bearers in wall scenes.
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LOT 0033
Egyptian Alabaster Trussed Duck
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000€4,640 - 6,960 (for guidance only)$5,400 - 8,100 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£2,000 (EUR 2,320; USD 2,700) +BP*
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Egyptian Stone Scarab
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Scaphoid plaque with a ribbed dome on the obverse and a flared mouth at the socket; underside with incuse hieroglyphs and symbols, including a scarab flanked by two nefer signs, an S-scroll, a standing vulture, and others; supplied with an impression. 1.22 grams, 18 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
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Egyptian Glass Panel with Eyes
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £106
Irregular glass panel fragment with inlaid mosaic eye motifs; repaired. 1.57 grams, 18 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Egyptian Stone Age Knapped Arrowhead Group from Thebes
Neolithic Period, 11,000-5,200 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising five barbed types, two with chipped barbs; accompanied with a handwritten tag reading 'Neolithic hollow-based arrowheads. Fayuum type. c.5000 BC'. 24.8 grams total, 33-58 mm
Found Thebes. From the collection of A.D. Passmore (1879-1958), his collection of flints from the area of Stonehenge was donated to the Ashmolean Museum in the 1950s. 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 an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton.
