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LOT 0453
Egyptian Decorated Alabaster Alabastron
CIRCA 500 B.C.
6 in. (281 grams total, 15 cm high including stand).
Lentoid in section with pierced lateral lugs at the shoulder, circumferential banding at the neck with dentilled detailing; supplied with a custom-made stand.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Germany, 1990s-2000s.
LiteratureSee The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 41.162.157, for similar.
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Mask fragment from a mummy with moulded and painted facial detailing; heavy black outline to the eyes and brows, banded headdress in shades of ochre, crimson, sea-green; mounted in a glazed display case. 847 grams, 25.5 x 25.5 cm
Acquired in the 1950s-1960s. From the collection of Mr Ciappara, Norfolk, UK. -
Egyptian Wooden Artefact Collection
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Egyptian Blue Faience Shabti
Early Ptolemaic Period, circa 3rd century B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
With a thick and lustrous turquoise glaze, sporting a tripartite wig highlighted in darker blue glaze, and a long beard; holding a pick, hoe and a cord for a seed bag hanging over the left shoulder; raised dorsal pillar and an integral plinth; repaired. 44 grams, 11.5 cm high
Ex collection of Jacques René Fiechter, Switzerland (1920-1950). with Auction Martin, Egyptian Collection André Bircher, 1949. Accompanied by an academic report by Egyptologist Paul Whelan.
The lack of inscription hinders positive identification, but the shabti’s proportions, elegant modelling, and lustrous glaze closely match others considered to have come from an area of the extensive necropolis at Abydos, labelled “Cemetery G” by its excavator Flinders Petrie, where hundreds of blue lustrous-glazed shabtis of varying qualities were recovered. This figure is closest in style to those belonging to Petosiris, son of Djed-hor. Both were buried with similar blue lustrous-glazed shabtis that were mostly plain although a few were inscribed with an inscription.
