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LOT 0728
Egyptian Faience Mummy Beads and Cat Amulet
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
1/8 - 1 in. (8.4 grams total, 3-24 mm).
Comprising tubular, ribbed and annular beads, offered with the top part of a cat amulet. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a mid 20th century London, UK, collection.
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LOT 0728
Egyptian Faience Mummy Beads and Cat Amulet
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Canopic Chest Fragment with Cobras
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £25
Rectangular panel bearing a frieze depicting a series of rearing cobras wearing sun-disc headdresses. 176 grams, 27 cm
Ex E.B.W. Chappelow collection, January 1958. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.10.
Friezes of rearing cobras at the top of canopic chests served as guardian figures, protecting the visceral containers within. Arguably, the most famous canopic chest, decorated with a frieze of rearing cobras, is the gilded one of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. -
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Egyptian Millefiori Glass Scarab
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £470
With a gold pin and suspension ring, polychrome glass body, plain underside; mounted in an 18ct gold bezel for hanging as a pendant, by BERJ, at Cluster Jewellers. 2.24 grams, 24 mm
Acquired from Derek Content, September 1974. Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. Accompanied by an original handwritten invoice from Derek Content; a typed collector's note recording the purchase from Derek Content in September 1974; and the collector's original inked images. -
Egyptian Banded Agate Kohl Pot
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Cone-shaped body with traces of lug handles on the upper third; narrow opening at the top with a thin, flattened rim. 94 grams, 75 mm
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London, UK.
This vessel's unusual triangular shape is thought to be limited to the Late Period; other comparable examples are known (e.g. Barbotin, C., Collection égyptienne: Musée Granet - Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 1995, p. 166, no. 97).
