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EA12 Egyptian Eye of Horus (Udjat Eye) amulet, Late Dynastic Period, c. 1085-332 B.C. : £ 45A deep blue Egyptian faience Udjat eye amulet, pierced for attachment, measuring 22 mm/0.9 ins. in length. Some bubbling of the surface, but sound, Late Dynastic Period, c. 1085-332 B.C.EA13 A provenanced blue-green glazed faience amulet of ?Heryshef, Late Dynastic Period : SOLDA blue-green glazed faience amulet of ?Heryshef, measuring 42 mm/1.6 in. in height. The facial details a little cursorily modelled but an intact example. An old collection label attached, which reads 'Ancient Egyptian charm figure of a God of B.C. 900. Found at Gurob. Very fine', an addition in pencil reads '?Herschef, terrible face'. Found at Gurob, in the Fayum, and from an old Irish (Dublin) private collection assembled in the first two decades of the 20th Century, Late Dynastic Period.Heryshef was a fertility god usually represented in the form of a ram or ram-headed man.
Gurob was excavated between 1888 and 1920 by Flinders Petrie, Ludwig Borchardt and others.EA14 A large polychrome wooden Ptah figure with falcon base, Ex Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, USA : £ 3850 NEW!
A carved wood and polychrome Ptah-Sokar figure depicted standing and wearing the royal wig and a broad aegis collar, measuring 381mm/15 ins. high. A vertical hieroglyphic register down the front and the rectangular wooden base having a frontal lidded compartment with a gold painted falcon on top. Some areas of paint loss and some retouching, otherwise intact. Late Period, c. 525-30 B.C. Ex Private Collection, Maryland, USA, but originally de-accessioned from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, in 1973.
A superb centrepiece for any Egyptian collection.EA15 A rare green faience glazed Ramesside New Kingdom ushabti : £ 450A rare green faience glazed Ramesside New Kingdom ushabti, measuring 142 mm/5.6 ins. high, with tripartite wig and the body covered with black hieroglyphs. The front worn destroying much of the detail, but the reverse in good condition, 19th Dynasty, 1295-1186 B.C.Reputedly originally acquired in Egypt during the 2nd World War.
If the front of this ushabti matched the back, then this would be an expensive item.
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EA12: £45 |
EA13: SOLD |
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EA14: £3850
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EA14: Front view |
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EA15: £450
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EA15: Reverse |
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