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LOT 0647
Egyptian Stone Scarab
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
3/4 in. (1.22 grams, 18 mm).
Scaphoid plaque with a ribbed dome on the obverse and a flared mouth at the socket; underside with incuse hieroglyphs and symbols, including a scarab flanked by two nefer signs, an S-scroll, a standing vulture, and others; supplied with an impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
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LOT 0647
Egyptian Stone Scarab
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Faience Shabti of the Overseer of Royal Children Horirani
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mummiform figure standing on a square plinth, wearing a plain, long lappet wig and a long false beard, with a finely modelled face; crossed arms, the left hand holding a pick and the right a hoe and a cord belonging to a plain seed bag suspended over the left shoulder; three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic text on the lower body. 32.1 grams, 88 mm
Acquired from Portobello Road, 18th March 1967, for 30 shillings. 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.120. -
Egyptian Rock Crystal Scarab
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £700 - 900 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £350
Oval body, with lightly incised detailing of the clypeus, head, prothorax, elytra, and legs; underside plain; longitudinally pierced for suspension. 4.82 grams, 22 mm
Ex Belinda Elliston collection, a member of the Egyptian Exploration Society, 1940s onwards. -
Large Egyptian Green-Gray Slate Fish Palette
Predynastic, Naqada II, 4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,175
Broad and flat, the outline is shaped like a stylised, schematic fish, with an ovoid body, rounded front edge, and a gently tapering 'tail' at the rear. 858 grams, 25.3 cm
Private collection, Paris, France. Auction Millon, Paris, 27 May 2019, no.109. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13496-263056.
Predynastic fish palettes are among the more common zoomorphic types and were produced with varying degrees of naturalism and detail. This example has a similar profile to one recovered from the Predynastic cemetery at Tarkhan (Petrie, W.M.F., Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes, London, 1917, pl. LV, 54J).
