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LOT 0506
Egyptian Blue Faience Funerary Dish for Modelled Food
MIDDLE KINGDOM, 12TH DYNASTY, 1991–1802 B.C.
4 3/8 in. (252 grams, 11.1 cm).
Shaped as a shallow circular dish.
ProvenanceAcquired on the German art market, 1989-1995.
with The Museum Gallery, 19 Bury Place, London, WC1, UK, 1998-2003.
Property of a London based academic, 2003-present.
Cf. Friedman, F.D., Borromeo, G., Leveque, M. (eds.), Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, London, 1998, p.151 and p.239, for a similar dish in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. E14188).
FootnotesFaience food and dish simulacra replaced the wooden food preparation models of the earlier Middle Kingdom.
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LOT 0506
Egyptian Blue Faience Funerary Dish for Modelled Food
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
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Egyptian Silver Cat Amulet
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Seated figure of a cat with deeply set eyes and pointed ears set on a rectangular base with a rounded end; suspension loop on the back. 0.33 grams, 8 mm
From an early 20th century collection.
The cat was sacred to Bastet, a protective mother goddess and the daughter of the sun god Re. Amulets provided the wearer with the goddess's protection. -
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Egypto-Phoenician Stone Scaraboid Group
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
One has an incuse falcon representing the god Re-Horakhty on the underside, the other in mottled hardstone. 4.69 grams total, 13-18 mm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Egyptian Wooden Sarcophagus with Falcon Mummy
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-31 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,190
Two-part wooden (sycamore?) falcon-headed mummiform coffin carved from a single piece of wood, with a tripartite wig and human ears, painted detailing to the eyes, and broad decorative collar; the whole covered with black paint with traces of yellow decoration and inscriptions; inside a mummified falcon wrapped in linen strips. 2.3 kg, 49.5 cm
Ex R. Liechti (1934-2010) Geneva, Switzerland, formed between 1950-1990s. Accompanied by a copy of an old collection inventory note. Accompanied by an academic report by Egyptologist Paul Whelan. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12074-218220.
This falcon-headed coffin once contained a so-called 'corn mummy' - a mummiform effigy impregnated with grain, which germinated. Such 'corn mummies' were associated with Osirian regeneration, fertility, and rebirth concepts. The falcon-headed coffin was associated with the powerful funerary deity Sokar-Osiris or Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. It seems that the original contents of this coffin were either lost or discarded and replaced with a mummified bird (falcon?). Interestingly, the most significant number of falcon-headed coffins come from Tuna el-Gebel, the site of an extensive animal mummy necropolis.
