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LOT 0649
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Bracelet with Drops
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
10 5/8 in. (4.64 grams, 27 cm).
Composed of green- and blue-glazed disc and tubular beads, restrung. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceExcavated from Egypt in 1914.
From the private collection of Mr David Sams and his wife Elizabeth Kate Sams, gentry and amateur archaeologists who travelled to Egypt in 1914 with their daughter Ethel. Mr Sams and his wife led digging expeditions from which these items come from the family estate of Mr and Mrs Sams, by direct descent to their granddaughter.
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LOT 0649
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Bracelet with Drops
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian and Other Mixed Artefact Collection
2nd century B.C. and laterEstimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £275
Including faience, glass, marble, bronze, stucco, terracotta and wooden items such as a bangle, Byzantine trade weight, stylised coiled serpent, peg, beads, and others. 159 grams total, 3-75 mm
Ex Horatio and Patsy Melas, Alexandria, Egypt, acquired before 1967; thence by descent, moved to Switzerland and London. with Chiswick Auctions, London, UK, 11 May 2016, no.132. -
Egyptian Glazed Faience Scarab in Victorian Gold Ring
New Kingdom, circa 13th–11th century B.C. and laterEstimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
The scarab modelled with a stylised head, delineated pronotum and wing cases, a longitudinal division and angular markings at the shoulders, the underside with the seated figure of a pharaoh or god, facing a vertical cartouche bearing the throne name of Thutmose III, Men-kheper-re; set in a Victorian gold mount with an open-backed oval setting, with a fine beaded or twisted-wire border and pierced, divided shoulders. 5.69 grams, 26.90 mm overall, 18.79 x 18.00 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18)
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection. -
Early Phoenician Alabaster Vase
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,667
With bulbous body, broad flared neck, flange rim, dimple to underside of base. 769 grams, 13.1 cm
Private collection, USA and Switzerland, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; by descent to the current owner. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13222-249180.
Jars like this vase certainly were part of the funerary equipment and destined to contain makeup, unguents and oils. The vase can find a good parallel with a similar specimen in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, belonging to the outfit of the 18th Dynasty princess Nbw-m-tḫ, probably a daughter of Amenhotep III.
