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LOT 0568
Egypto-Phoenician Faience Amulet Group
4TH-2ND CENTURY B.C. AND LATER
5/8 - 1 1/8in. (18.74 grams total, 15-30 mm).
Comprising flat discs with perforations and a modern trussed duck with its head laid along its spine. [8]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 0568
Egypto-Phoenician Faience Amulet Group
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£100 (EUR 116; USD 135) +BP*
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Egyptian Limestone Sculptor's Model
Ptolemaic Period, 3rd-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £550
Plano-convex in section, with the carved front portion of a nemes headdress with an uraeus mounted on a custom-made stand. 948 grams total, 20.5 cm high including stand
Ex Roger Liechti (1934-2010), Petit-Lancy, Switzerland; acquired in 1982 from Galerie Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Geneva. Thence by descent within the family, Switzerland. -
Egyptian Terracotta Mould for a Pomegranate Amulet
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, 1379-1362 B.C.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Rectangular mould with incuse pomegranate motif on one side; with old collector's record card detailing findspot, place of purchase and other details. 3.22 grams, 21 mm
Acquired April 1980. 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.149. -
Egyptian Assorted Faience and Other Beads in Ronson Lighter Box
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising tubular, discoid, shell, and other beads, in a vintage 'Ronson' lighter box. 23 grams total, 1-17 mm
Excavated from Egypt in 1914. From the private collection of Mr David Sams and his wife Elizabeth Kate Sams, gentry and amateur archaeologists who travelled to Egypt in 1914 with their daughter Ethel. Mr Sams and his wife led digging expeditions from which these items come from the family estate of Mr and Mrs Sams, by direct descent to their granddaughter.
