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LOT 0075
Egyptian Turquoise and Cobalt Blue Faience Amphora
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
7 in. (1.48 kg, 17.8 cm high).
Barrel-shaped in profile, with a stepped shoulder, wide neck, and broad, flared flange rim at the mouth, supported by two lateral strap handles; applied wreath decoration to the outer edge of the shoulder and vertical fronds to the lower body; restored.
ProvenanceStift Neuberg (Neuberg Abbey) collection, Heidelberg, Germany, by 1893 and into the 20th century.
Anonymous sale; Münzen und Medaillen, Auktion 41, 1972, no.151.
Fiorella Cottier-Angeli collection, Geneva, 1981-2007.
Herbert A. Cahn, acquired from the above.
With Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 2007.
Private collection, Midwest USA, acquired in 2007.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13477-262436.
Stift Neuberg was privately owned from 1798 until 1926. By 1893, a collection of antiquities had been assembled there, and its Greek and Roman holdings were published. It is believed that the amphora was acquired as part of this collection by Friedrich Alexander von Bernus (1838–1908), who inherited Stift Neuberg from his relative Johann Friedrich Schlosser (1780-1851), a nephew of Goethe. In 1926, the abbey was sold to the Benedictines and has remained a religious establishment ever since.
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LOT 0075
Egyptian Turquoise and Cobalt Blue Faience Amphora
Estimate £8,000 - 10,000€9,280 - 11,600 (for guidance only)$10,800 - 13,500 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£4,000 (EUR 4,640; USD 5,400) +BP*
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Egyptian Lapis Lazuli Shabti Amulet
New Kingdom, 1550-1070 B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £600
Carved in the round as a mummiform figure, with a multi-row collar and tripartite wig; rear suspension loop. 3.12 grams, 31 mm
Private collection, acquired on the Swiss art market in 1992; thence by descent. -
Egyptian Mixed Scarab and Scaraboid Collection
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Comprising (from left to right, top to bottom): 1) a scarab with an oval border containing a goose, nefer(?), and a reed leaf; 2) a scarab with an oval border featuring a triple lotus flower motif at the top and bottom, with a middle row of floral bundles; 3) a scaraboid with a long oval border containing a cross pattern incorporating scrolls, coiled cords, and floral elements; 4) a scarab with an oval border featuring a hes-jar flanked by two cobras; 5) a scarab with a standing male figure holding a sceptre/mace and a flail, flanked by two highly stylised rearing cobras; 6) a plain scarab; 7) and a scarab with an oval border containing the name Amun-Re, a neb symbol, and a lotus flower. 13 grams total, 11-23 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 Terracotta Mould with Impression of the Cartouche of Pharaoh Tutankhamun
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1342-1323 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Bids: 5 | Current Bid: £190
Ellipsoid in plan with an impressed cartouche for 'Tutankhamun, ruler of Hermonthis'. 6.5 grams, 29 mm
Acquired Caledonian market, November 1958, for 2 shillings and sixpence. 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.50.
Moulds like this were often used to produce faience ring bezels (cf. Seyfried, F. (ed.), In the Light of Amarna: 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery, Berlin, 2012, p. 100, fig. 2, for an example of a similar mould and a faience ring bezel for Akhenaten). Hermonthis, also known as Armant, was called ı͗wnu-šmꜤw by the ancient Egyptians and regarded as the southern counterpart to the solar temple complex at Heliopolis.
