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LOT 0018
Egyptian Pale Blue Faience Shabti for Padiosiris
LATE PERIOD, 664-525 B.C.
5 3/4 in. (98.6 grams, 14.5 cm including stand).
Finely modelled face with false beard and tripartite wig; hands holding the pick and the hoe; a seed bag over the left shoulder; plain back pillar; a T-shape arrangement of hieroglyphic text to the front: sḥḏ wsir sm n mnw pꜢ-di wsir(?) ms s(sic) r.t-ir.t-Ꜣst-n-wr.t mꜢʾ ḫrw ‘The illuminated, the Osiris, Sem-(priest ) of Min, God’s Servant, Pa-di-Osiris, born (to) Ret-iret-Isis-en-weret true of voice’; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceFrench collection, 1990s.
Acquired from St James's Ancient Art, London SW1, circa 2019.
Private collection of Professor Kenneth Graham, London, UK.
Accompanied by a St James's Ancient Art certificate of authenticity.
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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. -
Egyptian Carnelian Scarab
New Kingdom, 1550-1070 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
With incised carapace and leg detailing, hieroglyphs to the underside. 2.23 grams, 16 mm
Ex North London, UK, gentleman, 1990s. -
Egyptian Steatite and Other Scarab Collection
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
Mixed group of scarabs and scaraboids in steatite and glazed composition with hieroglyphs to the underside. 10.2 grams total, 10-17 mm
Ex North London, UK, gentleman, 1990s.
