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LOT 0457
Egyptian Carnelian Hair Ring Group
NEW KINGDOM, 1550-1070 B.C.
5/8 in. (7.10 grams total, 17 mm).
Each a penannular band with a barrel-shaped profile. [2]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 0457
Egyptian Carnelian Hair Ring Group
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
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Phoenician Bronze Seal Pendant
Late 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Formed as a ribbed lop with short neck, ellipsoid plaque with incuse saltire and pellets. 16.35 grams, 27 mm wide
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Romano-Egyptian Alabaster Bowl
4th-5th century A.D.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
With flat rim and four projecting lugs; band of incised concentric rings to the rim and shoulder; curving sidewall to a narrow flat base. 503 grams, 13.2 cm wide
Private collection, USA and Switzerland, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; by descent to the current owner.
Vessels of this typology were used mainly as mortars for crushing legumes, cereals, fruit, spices, the bare minimum needed for preparing daily food, but also for pharmaceutical products and for painting, for mixing colours and ointments. -
Egyptian Blue Faience Cup
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Conical in profile with a wide base and a shallow, hollow interior. 56.8 grams, 56 mm
Private collection, USA and Switzerland, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent.
