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LOT 0013
Egyptian Limestone Fragment with Seated God
RAMESSIDE PERIOD, 19TH DYNASTY, 1295-1186 B.C.
2 7/8 in. (4 1/8 in.) (53 grams, 74 mm (84 grams total, 10.5 cm high including stand)).
A carved limestone relief fragment depicting a squatting god Amun-Re, facing right wearing a headdress topped by two ostrich-feather plumes, a segmented mantle to the shoulders, knees drawn up supporting another ostrich plume; inked accession numbers to the reverse: '974.15', '69.10019'; accompanied by a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceFrom a deceased American estate, acquired between 1970-1989.
with Bonham's, London, Knightsbridge, 28 October 2009, lot 23 [Part].
Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Bonhams catalogue pages.
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Egyptian Faience Figure of Bes
Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
A green glazed composition figure of Bes standing on a base; plumed headdress and loop absent. 4.79 grams, 34 mm
Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private Swiss collection since 1998. -
Egyptian Glass Eye Pair
Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
A pair of glass eye inlays from a mummy case, brown glass irises, painted black pupils and lateral tear ducts; mounted on a custom-made glass stand. 1.3 kg total, 35.5 cm high including stand
French collection, 1960s-early 2000s. From an important Paris gallery, France. with Jean Marc Delvaux SVV, 15 December 2017, lot 274. -
Egyptian Blue Faience Shabti of Nesitanebisheru
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 980-935 B.C.Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £15,000
A vibrant blue-glazed mummiform shabti of princess Nesitanebisheru, daughter of Pinudjem II, on a custom-made display stand; modelled with arms crossed over the chest, holding a hoe in each hand, wearing a tripartite wig; netted seed bag painted on the back; the bottom half of the figure bearing eight columns of hieroglyphic text in black giving a version of the shabti spell reading: (1) The illuminated one, the Osiris Nesitanebisheru, she says: (2) ‘O this shabti, if one counts, if one reckons to do (3) for the Osiris Nesitanebisheru, to cultivate the fields, (4) to irrigate the riparian lands, to transport by boat the sand of (5) the east (to) the west and vice-versa – now indeed obstacles are implanted (6) therewith – as a man at his duties (to do for ?) (7) the Osiris Nesitanebisheru, to do all the works that are to be done (8) in God’s land at any time to serve, ‘here I am,’ (you shall say). 314 grams total, 16.5 cm high including stand
The object comes from the well known Deir el-Bahari cache (near Thebes) first discovered in 1870. Ex Zurich Antiquities Fair. Ex R. Liechti, Geneva, acquired from the above. Accompanied by an academic report by Egyptologist Paul Whelan. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11598-198961.
Nesitanebisheru’s burial was discovered in the famous ‘Royal Cache I’ at Deir el-Bahari (DB 320), with many dozens of coffins and vast quantities of funerary equipment belonging to pharaohs, including Thutmose III and Ramesses II, queens, and other royals, as well as elite members of society that had been reburied by Amun priests to hide them from tomb robbers. Nesitanebisheru’s coffin and burial equipment, including her shabtis, were found at the very end of the c. 70m long tomb in a chamber which served as a family vault for her father, the High Priest of Amun, Pinudjem II, and his principal wife Neskhons. While her worker shabtis are all mostly similar in style with 6-8 text columns, the composition of their inscriptions are not consistent with different openings and variations to the content (often including several peculiarities). Curiously, her titles do not appear in her shabti inscription, unlike those for her mother.
