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LOT 0498
Egyptian Style Terracotta Shabti Mould
19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
3 3/8 in. (70 grams, 87 mm).
Tongue-shaped in plan with a step to the square end, incuse figure with crossed hands, tripartite wig, hieroglyphic text to the lower body, giving a standard shabti introduction.
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
FootnotesThis forger's mould features the most recognisable text elements found on Late Period shabtis. However, authentic ancient moulds were typically plain—allowing the inscription to be added after casting—or left with blank spaces for the owner's name. While modern forgers often successfully replicate the common opening formulas, they frequently garble or over-embellish the subsequent individual names and texts.
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LOT 0498
Egyptian Style Terracotta Shabti Mould
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£150 (EUR 174; USD 203) +BP*
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Egyptian Mixed Scarab Collection
2nd-1st millennium B.C. and laterEstimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Comprising three faience scarabs with detailed bodies and decorated undersides, featuring: a scroll border with central design consisting of a nefer, neb, Red Crown, and a striding human figure holding a flail; a scroll border with a central figure of a bowman with a Red Crown beneath; a seated figure before an offering table(?); an oval scaraboid featuring a central sun disc with opposed nefer signs flanked by hatched panels; and a plain carnelian scarab. 22.75 grams total, 15-28 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Egyptian Alabaster Trussed Duck
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, circa 2345-2181 B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
Delicately carved in the round with the head and neck laid backwards along the spine, the eyes recessed for inlays (absent); mounted on a custom-made stand. 891 grams total, duck: 12.2 cm long
Private French collection acquired before 1970. Bonhams Antiquities, 29 April 2009, no.58 (sold for £5,400.00). Bonhams Antiquities, 23 October 2013, no.8 (sold for £7,500.00). Prince collection, UK, 2013-2017. Accompanied by a French passport no.099505. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12942-245247.
Small statuettes of ducks, prepared for cooking, were created to provide imperishable offerings for the tomb. These birds appeared in almost every offering list and were depicted being brought to the tomb by offering bearers in wall scenes. -
Egyptian Artefact Collection
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a standing figure of Sekhmet, featuring a plain dorsal pillar with an integral suspension hole, lower legs missing; two hawk-headed Qebehsenuef, Sons of Horus amulets; steatite scarab with base decorated with a cartouche of Thutmose III and a Bes figure flanked by wadj signs 18.01 grams total, 16-53 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
