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LOT 0533
Egyptian Polychrome Faience Amulet in Revival Gold Brooch
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C. AND LATER
1 in. (4.24 grams, 24 mm).
The central blue-and-yellow polychrome faience mummiform figure, set in a nineteenth-century gold brooch, is flanked by two Egyptianising attendants, with a winged sun-disc motif below and a pin fitting on the reverse.
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market.
UK, private collection.
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LOT 0533
Egyptian Polychrome Faience Amulet in Revival Gold Brooch
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£500 (EUR 580; USD 675) +BP*
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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 Black Stone Scarab with Seated Figure
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Plano-convex in section, with the underside showing an enthroned figure holding a staff before a reed leaf, with a sun disc above. 2.8 grams, 17 mm
From a mid 20th century collection. -
Egyptian Stone Smoothing Tool
3rd-late 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Spherical pounder with a smooth surface. 625 grams, 86 mm
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.134.
Stone pounders were used to shape and harden metal, as well as to pound stone architectural elements and statues.
