Piriform vessel with flared foot and wide rim, discoid lid with raised central panel to verso. 355 grams, 65 mm



Ex Galerie Nefer, Zurich, Switzerland. with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland.

Modelled in the round, sitting on a trapezoidal base, ears pricked, ribbed loop behind shoulders. 2.32 grams, 25.54 mm



Ex London gentleman's collection, by descent 1980s.

Sitting cat on a tongue-shaped base, suspension loop behind the shoulders. 0.65 grams, 16 mm



Ex London gentleman's collection, by descent 1980s.

Each a bulbous poppy-head with loop at the apex. 6.59 grams total, 16-18 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Curved in profile, tongue-shaped with two cutting edges; from the Giza Plateau, Egypt. 77 grams, 19.8 cm



Ex J Dickey collection. Ex Jerry Sherman collection, acquired on the US art market.

Hollow-formed figure of a servant with grotesque facial features, pointed cap and a short tunic, carrying a pouch in the right hand and shoulders an overflowing fruit basket on the left; a large recess between his legs may be for the insertion of an oversized model phallus; pierced lug to rear of neck for suspension. 286 grams, 17.5 cm



Acquired from Galerie Puhze, Freiburg, between 2002 and 2010. From the collection of R. L., Lower Saxony. Ex Gorny & Mosch, auction 300, Munich, no.75. Accompanied by a certificate from Galerie Günter Puhze and a German export licence.

Grotesque and exaggerated figurines were produced in late Hellenistic times, especially in Alexandria. The artisans, fascinated with realism, started to reproduce scenes and figures from daily life, and seemed to have a preference for emphasis on ill and deformed persons. The characters with caricature features are usually referred to as grotesques.

Carved in three-quarter view, with hair dressed in a chignon with frontal band and wavy segments; soft facial features with much detailing remaining to the proper right eye and mouth; likely a frieze fragment; mounted on an old collector's display stand with typed label 'Marble, woman's head / Egypt / C.25-100 A.D. / Cat.No. 6169'. 8.45 kg, 39 cm high



Acquired in trade from the San Franciscanum Museum, Israel, prior to 1980. with Archaeologia, pre 1983, Switzerland and Canada. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12964-242755.

The arrangement of the hair is characteristic of female portraits dating between the late Severan and Tetrarchic periods. The head, due to the treatment of the hair, finds comparisons with a female portrait in the Museo Nazionale Romano, depicting an elderly woman of the Antonine era, and with another female portrait in the same museum, dated to the third decade of the 3rd century A.D., reworked in the Tetrarchic period, and which showed a Severan so-called Nest Frisur hairstyle. The sculpture in question can therefore be dated between the full 3rd century A.D. and the first decades of the 4th century A.D. based on the hairstyle, the shape of eyes and eyebrows.

Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art - Catalogue - Cairo, 1979, hardback, 219 pp, monochrome; Museum of Fine Arts - Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 BC - Boston, 1982, card covers, 336 pp, monochrome; I.E.S. Edwards - Tutankhamum: His Tomb and its Treasures - New York, 1977, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp, colour and monochrome; M.d'Alton - The New York Obelisk - New York, 1993, hardback, 72 pp, monochrome; C.K. Wilkinson - Edyptian wall Paintings - New York, 1983, card covers, 163 pp, monochrome; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Treasues of Tutankhamun - New York, 1976, card covers, 174 pp, monochrome and colour; D. Wildung - Egyptian Art in Berlin - Berlin, 1994. card covers, 59 pp, colour. 5.94 kg total, 23 x 21 - 29 x 22.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Steffen Wenig - Africa in Antiquity II: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan - Brooklyn, 1978, card covers, 366 pp, monochrome; What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile, Egypt, 3050-30 BC - Alexandria, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper, 192 pp, colour; Diana Craig Patch - Dawn of Egyptian Art - New York, 2011,hrdback with dustwrapper, 275 pp, colour; Nancy Jenkins - The Boat Beneath the Pyramid: King Cheops's Royal Ship - New York, 1980, hardback with dustwrapper, 181 pp, text, figures and colour plates; William C. hayes - The Scepter of Egypt: Part I - New York, 1960, hardback with dustwrapper, 399 pp, monochrome, fold-out map; John Ruffle - The Egyptians - Ithaca, 1977, hardback with dusytwrapper, 220 pp, colour and monochrome; Alan Morhead - The White Nile - Harmondsworth, 1973 edition, card covers, 368 pp, monochrome and colour; Egyptian Art in the Brooklyn Museum Collection - Brooklyn, 1952, card covers, 52 pp, monochrome. 8.15 kg total, 25 x 21.5 - 30.5 x 22 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

J.R. Harris - Egyptian Art - Feltham, 1966, hardback with dustwrapper, 42 pp, 55 colour plates; Z. Hawass - Egypt of the Pharaohs - Washington, 2001, hardback with dustwrapper, 288 pp, colour; P. Tompkins - Secrets of the Great Pyramid - New York, 1971, hardback with dustwrapper, 416 pp, monochrome, text figures; H.W. Muller et al. - Nofretete.Echnaton - Munich, 1976, card covers, 220 pp, colour and monochrome; H. Carter - The Tomb of Tutankhamen - London, 1972, card covers, 236 pp, colour and monochrome; C. Aldred - Jewels of the Pharaohs - London, 1971, card covers, 256 pp, monochrome'; R. David (ed) - Mysteries of the Mummies - New York, 1978, hardback with dustwrapper, 190 pp, colour and monochrome. 6.18 kg total, 25.5 x 18 - 28.3 x 24.1 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Z. Hawass - Valley of the Golden Mummies - New York, 2000 hardback with dustwrapper, 223 pp, colour; R.E. Freed - Ramses II: the Great Pharaoh and his Time - Memphis, 1987, card covers,215 pp, colour; H.G. Fischer - Ancient Egyptin Calligraphy - New York, 1988, hardback with cloth covers, 68 pp, text figures; L. Oakes & L. Cahlin - Ancient Egypt - London, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper, 504 pp, colour; C. Aldred - Akhenaten and Nefertiti - New York, 1973, card covers, 231 pp, monochrome; L. Cottrell 0 Egypt - New York, 1966, hard back with dustwrapper, 280 pp, colour and monochrome plates; M. Seidel & R. Schulz - Egypt - Norderstdt, 2005, hardback with dustwrapper, 608 pp, colour. 8.65 kg total, 17 x 15.5 - 30.5 x 25.6 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

C.F. Nims - Thebes of the Pharaohs: Pattern for Every City - New York, 1965, hardback with dustwrapper, 208 pp, colour and monochrome; Montréal Museum - The Great Pharaoh Ramses II and his Time - Montréal, 1985, card covers, 150 pp, colour; A. Siliotti - Guide to the Valley of the Kings - Cercelli, 1996, hardback with dustwrapper, 168 pp, colour; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Ancient Art Gifts from The Norbert Schimmel Collection - Bulletin Vol.XLIX, Spring 1992 - card covers, 64 pp, colour; Toledo Museum of Art - Egypt in Toledo - Toledo, 2011, card covers, 112 pp, colour; B. Shmitz et al. - Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim - Mainz, 1996, card covers,145 pp, colour; A. Moorehead - The Blue Nile - London, 1972, hardback with dustwrapper, 336 pp, colour and monochrome. 5.76 kg total, 23 x 23 - 30.5 x 23 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.