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LOT 0553
Large Egyptian Stone Scarab
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
1 in. (7.94 grams, 27 mm).
With incised anatomical detailing on the upper and underside of the body. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceLondon, UK, art market, 1980s.
Private collection, London, UK.
Cf. Petrie, W.M.F., Amulets. Illustrated by the Egyptian Collection in University College, London, 1914, pl. XI, no. 92a, for a comparable scarab with underside modelling.
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LOT 0553
Large Egyptian Stone Scarab
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Egyptian Alabaster Alabastron
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Ovoid jar with a rounded base, concave shoulders and flared neck; remains of lug handles, restored. 332 grams, 14 cm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Large Egyptian Amuletic Cartouche-shaped Stamp Naming Amun-Re
Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, circa 1069-332 B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Large oval stamp with plano-convex profile, plumed motif to the top, pierced for suspension; underside with hieroglyphic legend, possibly a garbled version of (A)mun-Re, lord of the thrones (of the two lands). 13.2 grams, 49 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. -
Egyptian Serpentine Statuette of a Seated Couple
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 1290-1279 B.C.Estimate: £15,000 - 20,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £8,200
Depicting a husband and wife seated side-by-side on chairs, each with an arm around the spouse's waist as a sign of intimacy; both wearing richly pleated robes, the man sporting a duplex wig and earrings, the woman with a longer wig with tassel ends, both composed of long rows of tight curls; the back slab with low-relief depictions of a standing man and woman facing each other, with traces of a hieroglyphic inscription; the surface slightly worn and abraded in places; reassembled from two parts. 3.89 kg, 24.5 cm
From the estate of the artist Margo Veillon (1907-2003), Lausanne, Switzerland.
The statuette is delicately sculpted and of high quality. The fine facial features of the official, the individual strands of the wigs and the pleats of the robes exhibit exquisite craftsmanship. Remarkably, the reverse of the sculpture is decorated with a fragmentarily preserved scene, most likely of the couple, with traces of inscription.
