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LOT 0408
Large Egyptian Painted Bowl Fragments
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, 1379-1362 B.C.
3 1/4 - 4 1/8 in. (175 grams total, 8.2-10.6 cm).
Four highly decorated fragments, including one rim sherd. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired circa 1979.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
A wide variety of vessel forms with blue-painted decoration were found at Amarna, most featuring floral and geometric designs, while a smaller number bore figurative elements (The City of Akhenaten. Part I. Excavations of 1921 and 1922 at el-'Amarneh, London, 1923, pls. XLIV-XLV, for examples of blue-painted vessels and decorations).
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LOT 0408
Large Egyptian Painted Bowl Fragments
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Egyptian Blue Glazed Faience Shabti of Djed-Bastet-Iuef-Ankh
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mummiform figure standing on a square plinth, wearing a long lappet wig, a false beard, and fine facial detailing, with crossed arms, the left hand holding a pick and the right a hoe, with the cord of a seed bag suspended from the bag; a plain dorsal pillar; the lower front bearing a vertical panel containing an impressed hieroglyphic text reading: 'The Osiris, Djed-Bastet-iuef-ankh, born to Iset-ir-dis'; mounted on a display stand. 99 grams total, 13.1 cm including stand
Acquired from Richardson, February 1965, for £2.00. 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.112. -
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Egyptian Bronze Votive Apis Bull Statue
Ptolemaic Period, 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £650
Small votive statuette of a bull advancing with a sun disc and uraeus between the horns, on a rectangular plinth; incised caparison and two falcons with outstretched wings on its back; phallus and testicles present; mounted on a custom-made stand. 90 grams total, 72 mm high including stand
Ex Zurich art market, 1980s. Private collection Brigitte Leu, Zurich, between 1980 and 2003.
In Ancient Egypt, bull deities embodied aspects of fertility or the creative power of certain gods, such as Ra. Originally, the Apis bull was a fertility god in his own right, but he could also merge syncretically with other deities. For example, the creator god Ptah of Memphis found his "living repetition" in the Apis bull. When an Apis bull died, it was given a lavish funeral and interred in a magnificent hard-stone sarcophagus within the dedicated catacombs at Saqqara known as the Serapeum. -
Egyptian Tubular Faience Mummy Bead String
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly green-glazed tubular beads, restrung. 2.63 grams, 36 cm
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.
