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LOT 0459
Egyptian and Other Faience and Hardstone Bead Collection
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1/8 - 7/8 in. (120 grams total, 2-23 mm).
A mixed group of mainly faience, glass, shell and stone polychrome beads of various types and dates. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1970s.
Important European collection.
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LOT 0459
Egyptian and Other Faience and Hardstone Bead Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
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Egyptian and Roman Period Amulet Collection
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £124
A mixed group of mainly composition and glass amulets, most with piercings or loops for suspension; including glazed fruit, figures, amulets with geometric motifs and others. 8.9 grams total, 11-23 mm
From an early 20th century UK collection. -
Egyptian Red Glass Face Inlay
Ptolemaic Period, circa 332-32 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
A red glass insert of a profile face with remains of a pharaonic crown to the forehead. 16.7 grams, 31 mm wide
Ex Joseph Altounian (1889-1954), Paris and Macon, thence by decent. with Christie's, London, 3 July 2018, lot 29. English private collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11603-199738.
Joseph Altounian opened his shop in 1906 in Paris and then relocated to Mâcon in 1924 when he was joined by his wife Henriette Lorbet. They specialised in Egyptian and Greek art, medieval sculpture and decorative arts, selling to major museums both in Europe and in the United States. At his death in 1954 the business was taken over by his daughter, Jacqueline Altounian-Lorbet, and her husband Bernard Rousset, who then specialised in antique furniture. -
Egyptian Blue Glazed Ra Amulet
Late New Kingdom, circa 1550-1070 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,690
A blue glazed composition figure of the advancing god Ra (possibly Ra-Horakhty), falcon-headed and wearing a sun disc, set on an integral rectangular base, left leg positioned in front of the right, arms held straight by his sides, wearing a wig and kilt; tapering pillar with suspension loop behind solar disc; repaired. 18.4 grams, 87 mm high
Acquired from Dr Jan Beekmans, circa 1982. UK private collection.
In ancient Egypt, Ra sat as the king of all the deities and the father of all creation, the god who could not only govern the sun, but who transformed himself into the sun. He was associated with the falcon, hence he is typically portrayed as a human with a falcon's head. The major cultic centre for Ra was the ancient city Iwnw, known as Heliopolis to the Greeks, which today lies under modern Cairo. The ancient Egyptians were an agricultural society inhabiting a desert; the sun (and thus Ra) was an integral component of their world view. Placed on the chest of the deceased, this amulet offered the wearer the chance of eternal renewal each morning with the sun.
