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LOT 0480
Large Egyptian Blue Faience Scarab
750-332 B.C.
2 in. (19.5 grams, 50 mm).
With boldly indicated head, clypeus, prothorax, and elytra; flat underside; holes at the head, back, and sides for attachment.
Provenancewith Beaussant Lefèvre, 17 November 2015, no.48.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Cf. Lacovara, P., and Markowitz, Y.J., Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA, 2020,p.122 no.20, for a similar scarab.
FootnotesScarabs were often used as funerary amulets and were believed to symbolise the rebirth and regeneration of the deceased.
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Lieutenant Goodman served in the 4th Battalion Welsh Regiment during World War I and saw action in Palestine during the capture of Bethlehem, (for which he won an MC). After the war, he setup a business selling Fordson trucks and tractors in Alexandria, Egypt. A keen antiquarian, he collected ancient objects during his time in Alexandria and when he visited the pyramids at Giza. After his first marriage failed, he returned to the UK in the early 1930s. On his death in 1959, he passed his small collection of Egyptian objects on to his second wife, Ruby Goodman. On Ruby’s death in 1994, they were left to their second daughter, Rosemary Johnson, (née Goodman), and are currently in the possession of her son.
