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LOT 0015
Egyptian Wooden Face Mask
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
7 1/4 in. (223 grams, 18.5 cm high).
With painted detailing to the eyebrows, eyes and headband; flesh coloured pigment remaining on the nose and forehead; prominent nose and small mouth; pierced through the chin and forehead to accept attachment dowels. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
See Taylor, J.H., Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, London, 2001, for discussion.
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Large Egyptian Expedition Lithograph Print of Thebes
1820 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Phillipeaux - Thèbes - Medynet-Abou. Combat Naval sculpté sur la face extérieure du palais exposée au nord - Proof etching on laid paper of plate 10 from La Description de l’Égypte: Antiquités, Volume II: Commission des sciences et arts d’Égypte with later backing sheet. 375 grams, 130.5 x 67 cm
From the collection of a North American priest. Acquired between 1981-1996. Property of a North American collector.
Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte; published between 1809 and 1828. Just 1,000 copies were distributed to various institutions, printed on on laid paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark. The book is subtitled Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’Armée française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l’Empereur Napoléon le Grand (Gathering of observations and discoveries which were made in Egypt during the expedition of the French army, published on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great). It was the world's first encyclopaedia devoted exclusively to the remains of ancient Egypt. The plates of this book are the first to present the archaeological sites of Thebes (Luxor). The frieze is from the palace wall of Meninet - Abou. -
Egyptian Glazed Steatite Seated Monkey Holding a Kohl Pot
New Kingdom, 1225-1070 B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £600
The monkey holding a kohl pot of roughly cylindrical form; set on an integral oval base; rim of kohl perforated twice; mounted on a custom-made display base. 21.2 grams total, 37 mm high including stand
with François de Riqules, Archéologie, 11-12 November 2001, lot 198. -
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Necklace
Late New Kingdom, 1295-1069 B.C.Estimate: £700 - 900 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £350
Restrung designer necklace using tubular green-glazed beads in a double row, interspersed with small double-ring beads; the central feature a net-like composition of brown and blue-glazed beads. 9.54 grams, 46 cm long
By repute, 'Excavated at Gurob by Prof. Flinders Petrie. From a quantity of beadwork taken from the neck of a mummy'. Ex 1920s UK collection.
