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LOT 1822
Grand Tour Egyptian Bronze Figure of the God Min
19TH CENTURY A.D.
8 7/8 in. (532 grams total, 22.5 cm high including stand).
Modelled in the round as a votive ithyphallic figure wearing a double-plumed crown with median sun disc; holding a flail in his outstretched right hand and his erect phallus in the left; mounted on a custom-made display base. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from a Manhattan gallery, USA, 1970s.
Ex private New York city collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. The Royal Ontario Museum for a similar figure (inv. no. 910.17.14); cf. Daressy, G., Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 38001-39384 Statues de divinités, Cairo, 1906, pl. XXVII, no.38479, for a similar example.
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Grand Tour Egyptian Bronze Figure of the God Min
19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Modelled in the round as a votive ithyphallic figure wearing a double-plumed crown with median sun disc; holding a flail in his outstretched right hand and his erect phallus in the left; mounted on a custom-made display base. 532 grams total, 22.5 cm high including stand
Acquired from a Manhattan gallery, USA, 1970s. Ex private New York city collection. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Post Medieval Bronze Artefact Group
18th-19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising: three decorative buttons; fob seal matrix with plain intaglio; a spherical white metal button; a red glass intaglio with profile bust set in a fragmentary swivel mount; a clear glass pendant with three oak leaves; a glass intaglio of a seated Lady Justice set in a bronze frame. 38.3 grams total, 16-26 mm
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector. From his private collection since the 1970s; thence by descent circa 2000. Ex private collection of a Bedfordshire gentleman. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Theriaca 'Venice Triacle' Lead Box Lid
Italy, Venice, 17th century A.D.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Discoid in plan with lip to underside, central low-relief motif of a laureate and draped Roman-style bust with a nimbate lion of St. Mark, within a band inscribed 'TERIACA F ALLA TESTA DORO IN VENET'; all within outer band containing laurel wreath. 31 grams, 45 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.
Theriaca or ‘Venice treacle’ was a medicinal compound used since the time of Mithradates VI of Pontus as an antidote against any poisonous bite.
