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LOT 0467
Egyptian and Other Faience Amulet and Bead Group
NEW KINGDOM, 1315-332 B.C. AND LATER
1/8 - 1 in. (39 grams total, 1-26 mm).
Comprising a group of mostly blue faience beads and amulets of mixed types and forms, with others of different types, materials and colours; each pierced for stringing.
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Egyptian Faience Hieroglyphic Scarab Group
Second Intermediate Period, circa 1650 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Comprising: two white glazed composition with hieroglyphs to the underside; three similar in blue-green. 9.4 grams total, 12-19 mm
From a family collection formed 1900-1950; by descent circa 1980. -
Egyptian Carnelian Papyrus Stalk Amulet
Late New Kingdom, 1550-1060 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Polished and pierced for suspension. 2.01 grams, 28 mm
Acquired in Europe before 1993. -
Egyptian Mounted Coptic Textile
Circa 5th-7th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising a double band of purple wool over linen, the ornament consisting of a series of circles alternating with a star-shaped and rhomboid decoration. 152 grams, 42.5 x 34 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
The large segments can be classified as clavi, although they are not part of a tunic but more possibly borders of a curtain, or a funerary sheet. Mantles and funerary shrouds were usually decorated by wide bands along the lower border, imitating the ornaments of tunics with clavi and orbiculi.
