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LOT 0025
Egyptian Faience Shabti of the Overseer of Royal Children Horirani
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, 664-525 B.C.
3 1/2 in. (32.1 grams, 88 mm).
Mummiform figure standing on a square plinth, wearing a plain, long lappet wig and a long false beard, with a finely modelled face; crossed arms, the left hand holding a pick and the right a hoe and a cord belonging to a plain seed bag suspended over the left shoulder; three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text on the lower body. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from Portobello Road, 18th March 1967, for 30 shillings.
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.120.
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LOT 0025
Egyptian Faience Shabti of the Overseer of Royal Children Horirani
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Painted Clay Shabti in Daily Dress
New Kingdom, 19th-20th Dynasty, circa 1292-1069 B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Shabti wearing the kilted dress of daily life, painted white, a blue-black lappet wig, arms crossed, and hands holding hoes, applied in red pigment; the face yellow; a yellow panel of hieroglyphic text on and beneath the kilt reading: 'The illuminated one, the Osiris, Wen....'; feet missing; mounted on a display stand. 119 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand
Acquired from the Egypt Exploration Society, 30th June 1965, for 2 shillings and sixpence. 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.115. -
Egyptian Alabaster Cylindrical Storage Vessel
Early Dynastic Period, 5th-6th Dynasty, circa 2300-2100 B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Tubular type with everted rounded rim; old dealer's note 'Alabaster cylindrical storage vessel, semi-translucent and with veining. Small abrasion to outturned flattened rim. Probably alabaster quarries at Hatnub, to north of el-Amarna. Egypt, early Dynastic, Vth-VIth Dynasties, c.2300-2100 BC. Bought Spitalfields Market, Thursday 12/1/19'. 508 grams, 11.8 cm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. -
Egyptian Papyrus Museum Reproduction of Berlin 3127 in Tube
20th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Colour reproduction of Berlin Papyrus 3127 belonging to Amun-em-wia, who lived during the 21st Dynasty (Third Intermediate Period). 312 grams total, tube: 27.5 cm high
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.