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LOT 0737
Egyptian Blue Glazed Shabti
30TH DYNASTY-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 380-30 B.C.
4 1/4 in. (5 in.) (28 grams, 10.8 cm (38 grams total, 12.6 cm high including stand)).
Slender mummiform type standing on an integral plinth, wearing a lappet wig with crossed arms holding agricultural tools; plain, broad dorsal pillar; with an old collector's note: 'Ancient Egyptian Exceedingly fine statuette in beautiful blue glaze B.C. 700 A very choice & desirable specimen from Lord Grenfell's collection. Excavated at Thebes'; mounted on a custom-made stand with label on the underside: 'Egyptian B.C. 700 Lord Grenfell's Collection. Excavated at Thebes'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceExcavated Thebes, Egypt.
Ex Lord Grenfell's (1896-1926) collection, UK.
From the estate of a deceased Sussex private collector since the early 20th century.
Cf. Chappaz, J.-L., Les figurines funéraires égyptiennes du Musée d’art et d’histoire et de quelques collections privées, Geneva, 1984, p. 136, no. 180, for a similarly proportioned anepigraphic shabti with broad dorsal pillar.
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LOT 0737
Egyptian Blue Glazed Shabti
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
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Egyptian Assorted Faience and Other Beads in Early 20th Century Tin Box
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly glazed tubular, globular, barrel and other beads; in a vintage 'MacRobertson's' chocolate box. 74 grams total including tin, 1-16 mm
Excavated from Egypt in 1914. From the private collection of Mr David Sams and his wife Elizabeth Kate Sams, gentry and amateur archaeologists who travelled to Egypt in 1914 with their daughter Ethel. Mr Sams and his wife led digging expeditions from which these items come from the family estate of Mr and Mrs Sams, by direct descent to their granddaughter. -
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Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glazed Faience Shabti with Cartouche of Kedmerut
Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, circa 825-777 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Bids: 15 | Current Bid: £210
Mummiform shabti wearing a lappet wig, bearing a faintly modelled royal uraeus on the brow, with arms crossed and hands holding black-painted hoes, a black-painted seed belt across the back, black detailing on the face, and hieroglyphic text on the lower body giving the introduction 'The Osiris' followed by Kedmerut's name within a cartouche. 60.8 grams, 99 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
Kedmerut was the 23rd Divine Adoratrice of Amun, a title originally bestowed on the daughters of Amun’s chief priests during Hatshepsut’s reign (1473–1458 BC). By the Third Intermediate Period, these priestly women also held the title ‘God’s Wife of Amun’ and wielded considerable power, effectively ruling Upper Egypt as sovereigns. Indeed, Kedmerut’s shabti bears a uraeus on its forehead, symbolising kingship. -
Egyptian Amethyst Scarab with Gold Fitting
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £360
Dark-coloured carved amethyst with incised segmentation and notching to the mouth, gold frame with loops to the ends to protect the mounting holes. 5.53 grams, 23 mm
Acquired from Derek Content, 21 February 1975. Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. Accompanied by an original handwritten invoice from Derek Content, dated 21 February 1975.
