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LOT 0495
Egyptian Faience Eye of Horus
LATE NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1570-1075 B.C.
3/4 in. (0.78 grams, 21 mm).
Openwork faience wedjat pendant with suspension loop above and slender frame.
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s onwards.
Private collection of Michael O'Hara, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Cf. Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, pl.46 (j).
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LOT 0495
Egyptian Faience Eye of Horus
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Egyptian Faience Bes Amulet
Late New Kingdom, 1550-1070 B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £111
Standing on a roughly oval base with hands on thighs, grotesque facial features; suspension loop to head. 1.31 grams, 26 mm
From an early 20th century Home Counties, UK, collection.
Despite his fearsome appearance, Bes was the protector of women in childbirth. -
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Large Egyptian Faience Cartouche Amulet for the Pharaoh Apries
26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Displaying Wahibre, the birth name of the 26th Dynasty pharaoh Apries on one face; his throne name, Haaibre (rendered 'Apries' in Hellenistic times) on the other; repaired. 7.7 grams, 41 mm
Fine condition, repaired.
Acquired 1980s-1990s. Private collection of H. N., Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK.
This plaque was almost certainly once part of a foundation deposit of a temple built in the reign of this pharaoh. A similar, albeit slightly thicker, double-sided cartouche-shaped plaque of this king is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession number 02.4.105b). -
Egyptian Green Glazed Hieroglyphic Shabti
Late Period, 664-323 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Modelled mummiform with arms crossed over the chest, holding pick and hoe, a column of hieroglyphs with owner and mother's names running vertically down the front of the body, standing on a plinth with blank pillar to reverse; mounted on a wooden display base. 123 grams total, 13 cm high including stand
Gifted by Herbert Parsons (1870-1940) to his grandson, James Gibson (1926-2013). Inherited by the vendor and her brother, from their grandfather James Gibson.
The owner of this shabti (name unclear) was a Hem-Ka priest of Osiris.
