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LOT 0566
Egyptian Faience Amulet and Scarab Group
LATE-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
1/2 - 1 1/8 in. (19.8 grams total, 15-29 mm).
Comprising: a Bes head amulet, a frog amulet, a wedjat, an amuletic plaque, and two scarabs. [6]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Tinius, I., Altägypten in Braunschweig. Die Sammlungen des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums und des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, 2011, p. 161, no. 304, for comparable wedjat-eye amulet; Petrie, W.M.F., Amulets. Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, 1914, pl. XXXIV, nos. 189c-d, for similar Bes head amulets.
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LOT 0566
Egyptian Faience Amulet and Scarab Group
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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Large Egyptian Faience Eye of Horus Amulet
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Wedjat amuletic bead with applied black detailing to the pupil and brow. 16.5 grams, 50.4 mm
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983. Ex private North American collection. London private collection, 2016. -
Egyptian Poppy Amulet Group
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Three pendants each with poppy-head and loop at the apex. 3.55 grams total, 17-19 mm
From a gentleman's family collection, 2000s. -
Very Large Egyptian Expedition Lithograph of a Plan of Alexandria
Early 19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Proof etching on laid paper of plate 84 from Description de l'Égypte: ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française entitled Alexandrie. Plan général des deux ports, de la ville moderne, et de la ville des arabes. 299 grams, 105 x 69.5 cm
From the collection of a North American priest. Acquired between 1981-1996. Property of a North American collector.
Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte; published between 1809 and 1828. Just 1,000 copies were distributed to various institutions, printed on laid paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark. The book is subtitled Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’Armée française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l’Empereur Napoléon le Grand (Gathering of observations and discoveries which were made in Egypt during the expedition of the French army, published on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great). It was the world's first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to the remains of ancient Egypt. The plates of this book are the first to present the archaeological sites of Thebes (Luxor).
