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LOT 0556
Egyptian Miniature Terracotta Offering Bowl
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
2 3/8 in. (28.2 grams, 59 mm wide).
With flat base and internal marks from potter's wheel.
ProvenanceEx Jean-Alain Mariaud de Serres, Paris.
with François de Ricqlès Auction, Paris, 22 April 2001, no.872.
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LOT 0556
Egyptian Miniature Terracotta Offering Bowl
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£45 (EUR 52; USD 61) ‡+BP*
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Egyptian Snail-Shaped Ribbon Mosaic Glass Bead Group
Roman Period, 30 B.C.-323 A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising black-and-yellow mosaic glass beads shaped like snails. 10.4 grams total, 10-11 mm
Excavated from Egypt in 1914. From the private collection of Mr David Sams and his wife Elizabeth Kate Sams, gentry and amateur archaeologists who travelled to Egypt in 1914 with their daughter Ethel. Mr Sams and his wife led digging expeditions from which these items come from the family estate of Mr and Mrs Sams, by direct descent to their granddaughter. -
Egyptian Blue Faience Scarab with Cartouche in Gold Loop
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £300
Ellipsoid in plan, with a gold frame to the edge, a mounting loop, and a granule finial; obverse with a cartouche of Thutmosis III flanked by addorsed uraei attached to Maat feathers; reverse with an advancing lion, with the hieroglyphs for 'lord of the two lands' behind it and those for 'good god' over its body, facing another cartouche of Thutmosis III. 2.43 grams, 29 mm
Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. Accompanied by the collector's original inked images. -
Egyptian Steatite Scarab with Three Figures
Second Intermediate Period, circa 1782-1550 B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With incised anatomical detailing on the body and legs, underside with three standing figures. 4.26 grams, 20 mm
Acquired from various London-based UK, antiquity dealers. From a Derbyshire gentleman's private museum, formed from the late 1970s-early 1980s.
