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LOT 0037
Egyptian Limestone Relief with Painted Head and Hieroglyphics
OLD KINGDOM, 2686-2181 B.C.
21 1/4 in. (17.7 kg total, 51 cm including stand).
Rectangular panel with incised decoration in three registers: the top line reads: '...Per-ankh, Per-aa, Semer-heb(?)', names of two institutions, 'House of Life' and 'Great House', and a title, possibly 'courtier of the council'; the second line reads '...imakhu netjer-aa', meaning 'honoured before the Great God'; the lower register preserves the upper body and profile head of a man with shoulder-length hair, wearing a broad collar, with face and body painted red and hair black; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13447-260649.
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LOT 0037
Egyptian Limestone Relief with Painted Head and Hieroglyphics
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000€6,960 - 9,280 (for guidance only)$8,100 - 10,800 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£3,000 (EUR 3,480; USD 4,050) ‡+BP*
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Egyptian Blue Glazed Shabti of Payefadjer
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 1070-945 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £275
Squat mummiform type with face framed by a tripartite wig, hands modelled in relief, holding agricultural tools applied in paint; seed-bag at the back; central vertical hieroglyphic inscription on the lower front reading: 'The Osiris, wab-(priest), lector-(priest), Payefadjer (pꜢy.f-Ꜥḏr), true of voice'. 93 grams, 96 mm
Ex Ms E.C.(1923-2014), Israel. Inherited by her son D.L., Switzerland. -
Egyptian Painted Terracotta Bowl
Predynastic-Protodynastic Period, circa 3900-3200 B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Squat in profile with everted rim to the mouth, two lateral pierced lugs; old collector's handwritten card 'Ancient Egyptian remarkably fine & early two-handled bowl of exceedingly rare style, having a ring decoration in red. B.C. 1800. A valuable and perfect specimen from the Myers Collection'. 271 grams, 10.3 cm wide
From the private collection of Major William Joseph Myers (1858-1899). From the estate of a deceased Sussex private collector since the early 20th century. Accompanied by a copy of an illustrated academic report by Simone Musso. Accompanied by an old original handwritten information card.
The painted decoration imitates the veining of a hardstone such as basalt or breccia. -
Egyptian Blue Glazed Faience Shabti of the Royal Scribe Aahmes
Persian Period, circa 6th century B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mummiform figure wearing a lappet wig and long false beard, arms crossed over the chest; the left hand holds a pick, the right a hoe, and a cord from a small seed bag hangs over the shoulder; plain dorsal pillar; a T-form hieroglyphic text arrangement on the lower body, with the horizontal line reading: 'The illuminated one, the Osiris, the royal scribe Aahmes,' and the central column 'born to Hotep-Bastet, true of voice'; with a wooden display stand bearing the legend 'Ushabi of Aahmes, Royal Scribe, Persian period'. 44.7 grams, 10.7 cm (62.2 grams total, 12.2 cm including stand)
Acquired Herne Bay High Street, circa February 1957, 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.4.
