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LOT 0527

Sold for (Inc. bp): £312

EGYPTIAN BLUE GLAZED FAIENCE AMULET COLLECTION
NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1315-380 B.C.
5/8 - 1 in. (5.93 grams total, 17-26 mm).

A trio of blue-glazed composition amulets: the god Bes modelled stooping and wearing plumed crown, pierced for suspension; a seated cat on an arch-shaped base, suspension loop to reverse; a frog scaraboid with stylised facial and body detailing, hieroglyphs engraved to oblong base naming Amun-Re, pierced for suspension. [3, No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From an old UK collection.
From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.

Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt.

LITERATURE:
See D. Ben-Tor, The Scarab: A Reflection of Ancient Egypt, Jerusalem, 1993, p.65, no.28, for a scarab with the same base design.

CONDITION
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