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LOT 0748
Egyptian Style Terracotta Bes Figure
EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/4 in. (151 grams, 13.3 cm).
Standing on a pillar and wearing a feather crown, his hands resting on his knees, large protruding ears and a grimacing expression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in Luxor, Egypt.
From a private collection formed in the 1930s.
Cf. Weber, W., Die ägyptisch-griechischen Terrakotten, Berlin, 1914, pl.25, no. 251, for similar.
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LOT 0748
Egyptian Style Terracotta Bes Figure
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +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 Faience Scarabs with Gold Mounts
Late Period, 664-332 B.C. and laterEstimate: £400 - 600 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Comprising: a chestnut-coloured steatite scarab with a Thutmosis III cartouche and hieroglyphs on the underside; a tan-coloured faience scaraboid with a Thutmosis III cartouche on the convex obverse and the same cartouche with hieroglyphs, faced by a seated baboon, on the underside; offered with a modern blue scarab in a gold mount. 6.05 grams total, 22-25 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 Polished Diorite Hammerstone
Early Dynastic Period, circa 3,000 B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular in plan with rounded edges; with a handwritten label reading 'Polished diorite hammerstone. Egyptian, early Dynastic, c. 3000 BC'. 248 grams, 55 mm wide
From the collection of A.D.Passmore (1879-1958), his collection of flints from the area of Stonehenge was donated to the Ashmolean Museum in the 1950s. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by a copy of an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton.
