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LOT 0698
Egyptian Mounted Coptic Tunic Textile Fragment with Clavus and Tabula
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
22 1/2 in. (174 grams total, 57 cm).
Showing a large portion of a tunic, decorated with a clavus and a tablion, both featuring foliate ornaments alternating with kantharoi, the centre of the tablion patterned with rosettes surrounded by kantharoi on the four sides; mounted on a backing board. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Gayet, M. Al., Le Costume en Egypte, du IIIe au XIIIe Siecle, Paris, 1900, no. 51, p.115, for a tunic fragment with similar ornaments, from Deir-el-Dyk.; Del Francia Barocas, L., Museo dell'Alto Medioevo, Roma, I materiali Copti, p.86, no.6, for similar textiles.
FootnotesThis type of embroidery was typical of tunics and garments characterised by full-length clavi and segmenta, decorated with either intricate geometric patterns or floral and vegetal motifs. In Christian symbology, the kantharos was an ancient Greek wine cup that symbolised resurrection and eternal life through Christ.
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LOT 0698
Egyptian Mounted Coptic Tunic Textile Fragment with Clavus and Tabula
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Assorted Faience and Other Beads in Ronson Lighter Box
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising tubular, discoid, shell, and other beads, in a vintage 'Ronson' lighter box. 23 grams total, 1-17 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 Green Glazed Faience Qebehsenuef Attachment
Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Highly stylised head of the falcon god Qebehsenuef, one of the Four Sons of Horus, with incised feather decoration to the front, flat-backed, with two holes for attachment. 5.45 grams, 25 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
This amulet was likely attached to a visceral package or sewn onto mummy bandages. Qebehsenuef protected the intestines. -
Egyptian Blue Faience Shabti of Pa-Ka
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 980-935 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mummiform type wearing a lappet wig, with arms crossed and hands holding hoes; the wig, facial details, and hoes are highlighted in black; three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text on the lower body, giving the owner's name and an abbreviated version of the shabti spell; mounted on a stand. 192 grams total, 13 cm including stand
Ex E.B.W. Chappelors collection, July 1958. 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.42.
