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LOT 0523
Egypto-Phoenician Period Haematite Scarab with Winged Figure
700-500 B.C.
5/8 in. (6.52 grams, 17 mm).
Schematic scarab body with a scene on the underside of an advancing winged figure.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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LOT 0523
Egypto-Phoenician Period Haematite Scarab with Winged Figure
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£250 (EUR 290; USD 338) ‡+BP*
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Egyptian Gold Bead Amulet
Late New Kingdom-Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-900 B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Formed as a poppy seed with flaring terminals. 0.95 grams, 9 mm
Ex early 20th century French collection. -
Egyptian Blue Glazed Faience Shabti of Nes-pa-her-an
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 980-935 B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Bids: 6 | Current Bid: £130
Mummiform figure wearing a lappet wig encircled at the top by a black-painted sash, with arms crossed and hands holding black-painted hoes and a seed bag across the back; eyes and brows detailed in black; with a column of hieroglyphic text in black on the lower body, reading: 'The Osiris, Nes-pa-her-an'; mounted on a custom-made stand. 84 grams total, 11.4 cm including stand
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.113.
Nes-pa-her-an's shabtis were recovered from the so-called 'Priests of Amun Cache' discovered in 1891 in the mortuary temple complex of Queen Hatshepsut. -
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Egyptian Millefiori Glass Scarab
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £470
With a gold pin and suspension ring, polychrome glass body, plain underside; mounted in an 18ct gold bezel for hanging as a pendant, by BERJ, at Cluster Jewellers. 2.24 grams, 24 mm
Acquired from Derek Content, September 1974. Private collection of Kal Noselson, New York, acquired between 1976 and the late 1990s; thence by descent. Accompanied by an original handwritten invoice from Derek Content; a typed collector's note recording the purchase from Derek Content in September 1974; and the collector's original inked images.
