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LOT 0013
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Necklace
LATE NEW KINGDOM, 1295-1069 B.C.
18 1/8 in. (9.54 grams, 46 cm long).
Restrung designer necklace using tubular green-glazed beads in a double row, interspersed with small two-holed beads; the central feature a net-like composition of small brown and blue-glazed ring-shaped beads.
ProvenanceBy repute, 'Excavated at Gurob by Prof. Flinders Petrie. From a quantity of beadwork taken from the neck of a mummy'.
Ex 1920s UK collection.
Cf. faience necklaces and pendants with similar typology in Boyce, A., ‘Chapter II, Collar and necklace designs at Amarna: a preliminary study of fayence pendants’ in Kemp, B.J. (ed), Amarna Reports 6, pp.336-371, figs.11 lett.4a-b and 5, lett.a,g p.338.
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LOT 0013
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Necklace
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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Egyptian Blue Faience Bead Necklace
Roman Period, 30 B.C.-323 AD.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Restrung group of graduated beads, mainly tubular and oblate types, centrepiece a rosette pendant. 49 grams, 70 cm long
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. -
Egyptian Turquoise Faience Bead Necklace
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Restrung using mainly tubular beads interspersed with small annular beads; modern clasp. 4.93 grams, 46 cm
From an early 20th century UK collection. -
Egyptian Gold Heart Scarab with Wings
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With repousse striations to the wing case, details of the feathers to the wings; pierced for attachment to mummy wrappings; mounted in a glass-fronted case. 4.09 grams, 18.2 cm wide total (504 grams including case)
Fine condition. Rare.
From a German gallery in the 1970s. From an important European collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12125-211120.