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LOT 0639
Egyptian Hardstone Eye of Horus Amulet Bracelet
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
7 7/8 in. (25.19 grams, 20 cm).
Groups of ancient Egyptian carnelian beads restrung as a wearable bracelet with a wedjat-eye amulet suspended from the middle, using old gold by Belinda Elliston, collector and Egyptologist.
ProvenanceEx Belinda Elliston collection, a member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, 1940s onwards.
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LOT 0639
Egyptian Hardstone Eye of Horus Amulet Bracelet
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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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. -
Egyptian Faience Amulet Group
Late-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C. and laterEstimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Comprising a glassy faience Isis Lactans, depicted with Nephthys's headdress; a bandy-legged nude Pataikos; and a striding anthropomorphic Thoth. 6.59 grams total, 25-32 mm
Ex Chris Belton Artefacts, 1980s. -
Egyptian Stone Age Knapped Classic Ficron Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, Acheulean, circa 200,000 B.P.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £25
Classic bifacial, teardrop- or pear-shaped form, with a broad, rounded butt and tapering sides that terminate in a pointed tip. 399 grams, 16.5 cm
From the collection of A.D. Passmore (1879-1958); his collection of flints from the area of Stonehenge was donated to the Ashmolean Museum in the 1950s. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by a copy of an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton.
