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LOT 0446
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glazed Faience Shabti Ten-ankhet
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1077-943 B.C.
3 3/4 in. (74.17 grams, 96 mm).
Squat mummiform body wearing a lappet wig encircled at the top by a sash band, with crossed arms and hands holding black-painted hoes, a seed bag across the mid-back, and a column of black-painted hieroglyphic text on the lower body reading: 'The Osiris, Ten-ankhet, true of voice.' [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
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LOT 0446
Egyptian Turquoise Blue Glazed Faience Shabti Ten-ankhet
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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Phoenician Terracotta Head Group
Mid 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Each of bulbous profile with pinched nose and incised eyes and mouth. 31 grams total, 33-34 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Egyptian Green Glazed Faience Shabti of Wedjahor
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 9 | Current Bid: £320
Mummiform figure wearing a plain tripartite wig with horizontal line detailing at the lappet ends, a braided false beard, a finely modelled face, arms crossed with the left hand holding a pick and the right a hoe, and a tightly twisted cord of a long rectangular seed bag, which hangs over the left shoulder; seven horizontal bands of hieroglyphs on the body, with an eighth on the foot, and more entirely filling the dorsal pillar, giving Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead; with a display stand bearing the legend 'Ushabti of Wedjahor XXVI Dyn'. 63.9 grams, 10.9 cm (81.2 grams total, 12.6 cm including stand)
Acquired at Michael's, Crawford Street, 6th January 1960, £3:5:0 for two. 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.69A. -
Egyptian Coptic Tunic and Tapestry Textile Fragments with Animals and Geometric Ornamets
Circa 7th-8th century A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: a tapestry fragment (part of a pillow?) decorated with red bands and alternating figures of cups in green, red, blue, purple and yellow wool on linen; a large fragment of a segmentum from a tunic in coarse wool, consisting of a central medallion with a bird in red, yellow, light blue and yellow colour, with the borders decorate with meanders, tapestry, S-swift; a large portion of a tapestry with a central medallion ornamented with animals (lion, fish, birds) surrounded on the outside by dancing human figures and birds, one side circumscribed by a red stripe with vegetal ornaments, in red, blue-purple and yellow wool. 27 grams total, 15-22 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
Large fragments of Coptic textiles display figures associated with the Dionysian retinue (lions, birds); however, they may date to the early period of the Islamic conquest, when tunic ornamentation began to take on an increasingly abstract and geometric character, preserving only stylised traces of the ancient Pagan symbology.
