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LOT 0456
Egyptian Mummy Schist Eye Inlay Collection
MIDDLE KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, 2050-332 B.C.
8 1/4 in. (396 grams total, 21 cm high including stand).
Appliqués for the facial features of a mummy; with a wood and perspex stand. [5]
ProvenanceFrom an early 20th century UK collection, 1930-1940.
LiteratureCf. inserts in the wooden coffin of Djedkhonsefankh in Taylor, J.H., Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, London, 2001, item 172.
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LOT 0456
Egyptian Mummy Schist Eye Inlay Collection
Estimate £1,200 - 1,700€1,390 - 1,970 (for guidance only)$1,620 - 2,300 (for guidance only)
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Very Large Egyptian Faience Quadruple Eye of Horus Amulet
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Olive-green glazed composition plaque with transverse piercing comprising four addorsed wedjat motifs with black detailing. 32.3 grams, 64 mm
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Egyptian Blue Faience Shabti
Early Ptolemaic Period, circa 3rd century B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
With a thick and lustrous turquoise glaze, sporting a tripartite wig highlighted in darker blue glaze, and a long beard; holding a pick, hoe and a cord for a seed bag hanging over the left shoulder; raised dorsal pillar and an integral plinth; repaired. 44 grams, 11.5 cm high
Ex collection of Jacques René Fiechter, Switzerland (1920-1950). with Auction Martin, Egyptian Collection André Bircher, 1949. Accompanied by an academic report by Egyptologist Paul Whelan.
The lack of inscription hinders positive identification, but the shabti’s proportions, elegant modelling, and lustrous glaze closely match others considered to have come from an area of the extensive necropolis at Abydos, labelled “Cemetery G” by its excavator Flinders Petrie, where hundreds of blue lustrous-glazed shabtis of varying qualities were recovered. This figure is closest in style to those belonging to Petosiris, son of Djed-hor. Both were buried with similar blue lustrous-glazed shabtis that were mostly plain although a few were inscribed with an inscription.
