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LOT 0013
Egyptian Painted Clay Shabti in Daily Dress
NEW KINGDOM, 19TH-20TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1292-1069 B.C.
4 7/8 in. (119 grams total, 12.5 cm including stand).
Shabti wearing the kilted dress of daily life, painted white, a blue-black lappet wig, arms crossed, and hands holding hoes, applied in red pigment; the face yellow; a yellow panel of hieroglyphic text on and beneath the kilt reading: 'The illuminated one, the Osiris, Wen....'; feet missing; mounted on a display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from the Egypt Exploration Society, 30th June 1965, 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.115.
Cf. Cavillier, G., Catalogo degli Ushabti del Museo Egizio di Firenze, Volume II: Nuovo Regno (Seconda Parte), BAR International Series 2872, Oxford 2017, p. 118, no. 280, for a complete pottery shabti in daily-life dress with similar decoration.
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LOT 0013
Egyptian Painted Clay Shabti in Daily Dress
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Coptic Tunic and Tapestry Textile Fragments with Flowers and Geometric Ornaments
Circa 6th-8th century A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a fragment of a clavus decorated with rows of heart-shaped buds in green, red, and yellow wool on linen, with edges marked by brown bands; a large fragment of coarse wool, consisting of a central rectangle with lozenge ornamentation in yellow and brown wool, surrounded by rectangular sections enclosing images of rabbits within yellow, green, and red medallions, facing left; and a textile fragment with geometric decoration in purple, yellow, light red, green, and black wool. 33 grams total, 21-26 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
The large fragment featuring lozenge decoration, despite displaying figures associated with the Dionysian retinue (rabbits or hares), may date to the early period of the Islamic conquest, when tunic ornamentation began to take on an increasingly abstract and geometric character. -
Phoenician Citrine Scarab Amulet
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Modelled in the round with a segmented upper face, plain underside and a transverse suspension hole through the body. 0.93 grams, 10 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Egyptian Biconical Faience Mummy Bead String
New Kingdom-Late Period, circa 1550-332 B.C.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung group of dark brown biconical beads. 4.65 grams, 16 cm
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.
