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LOT 0514
Egyptian Blue Faience Shabti
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 22ND DYNASTY, CIRCA 945-715 B.C.
2 7/8 in. (20.77 grams, 73 mm).
Mummiform figure wearing a lappet wig with a black hair sash, hands crossed at the chest, holding agricultural implements, a seed bag at the back, and a column of hieroglyphic inscription down the front.
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London gentleman, 2000s.
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LOT 0514
Egyptian Blue Faience Shabti
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Egyptian Bronze Hippopotamus Amulet
Late Period, 664-332 B.C. or laterEstimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £300
Modelled in the round on a rectangular base with a dorsal loop. 20.5 grams, 26 mm
Ex mid 19th century London, UK, collection.
Metal hippopotamus amulets are comparatively rare compared with faience and stone examples. A gold hippopotamus amulet of similar size was discovered in Tomb W 643 at Meroe, Sudan, and is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. no. 23.380). Egyptian art depicted the Nile hippopotamus in Old, Middle, and New Kingdom limestone reliefs, as well as in faience, stone, and metal statuettes. Egyptians both admired and feared them: powerful and unpredictable, hippos attack when threatened. Their fearsome reputation made them potent apotropaic amulets, giving the wearer power over evil and chaotic forces. -
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Egyptian Mummy Textile and Cartonnage Fragments in Display Stand
Circa 1500 B.C.-300 A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising fragments of open-structured, loose-weave brown fabric, a painted cartonnage piece, and another fabric piece with attached fragments of plaster; mounted in a protective acrylic display. 82 grams total, 16 cm including stand
with a privately curated collection, 1980s-early 2000s. From the private collection and estate of Christine Simons (1943-2025), West Midlands, UK. -
Egyptian Green Glazed Faience Crocodile God Amulet
Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
An amulet featuring a crocodile with its tail curled, resting on a long, rectangular plinth; the reptile's scales are finely rendered, with an integral suspension hole beneath its chin. 3.07 grams, 41 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Although crocodiles were fearsome creatures, the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek was a benevolent god of water, fertility and rebirth in the afterlife.
