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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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Phoenician Bronze Statuette of Baal
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Modelled striding on an oval base, wearing a long kilt, broad collar, short wig and tall headdress, his right hand raised and touching the headdress; remains of suspension loop behind the headdress. 21.4 grams, 71 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
The raised arm of this figure would originally have held a spear characteristic of Inhert. -
Egyptian Faience Triad Amulet
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Comprising in high relief the Osirian triad (Nephthys, Horus, Isis) standing side by side on an integral plinth against a dorsal pillar; Nephthys (right) and Isis (left) shown frontally wearing headdresses with their own attributes, each holding the hands of Horus in the centre, naked and wearing the side-lock of youth; ribbed loop at the top for suspension. 8.56 grams, 33 mm
From the collection of a Swedish noble family, 1920s. -
Very Large Egyptian Expedition Lithograph of the Memnonium at Thebes and Tomb of Ozymandias
Early 19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Proof etching on laid paper of plate 26 from Vol .II of 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 Thèbes. Memnonium. Vue du tombeau d'Osymandyas et d'une partie de la chaîne Libyque, prise du nord-est. 227 grams, 104 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). The "Memnonium" was the Greek name for the mortuary temple of Ramesses II, known today as the Ramesseum.
