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Egyptian

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1426		Faience Wadjet Eye, New Kingdom to Late Period, ca. 1550-702 BC. A finely delineated green faience Egyptian wadjet eye with all features rendered in a fine high relief line, furnished completely on both sides, pierced lengthwise for suspension. Choice condition. Measures: 25 X 18 mm. Estimated Value $250 - 300. Ex Sotheby Antiquities London, 28 July 1970, Lot 88, part. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $200
Lot 1427		Dark Blue Faience Amarna Necklace, Middle Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1070. Composed of five strands of fine, deep blue faience, tubular beads separated, by small yellow disc beads. Modern silver open work covers at the junction of the bead strands. Modernly strung, intact and in excellent condition. Length: 18 in. Estimated Value $175 - 225. Ex private Swiss collection of S.O.S 1972. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $250
Lot 1428		"Amarna" Blue Faience Choker Necklace, ca. 1400-1200 BC. Necklace of the finest "Amarna" blue Egyptian glazed faience beads string as a choker in a modern gold setting by Winklemann, Basel, 1967. Length: 18 in. Estimated Value $500 - 700. Beads: Ex Hassely Collection, 28 July 1967. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $781
Lot 1429		Large Amarna Blue Scarab, Late New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, ca. 1186-1070 BC. A large brilliant "Amarna" blue faience scarab, the edge perforated for attachment to mummy wrappings. Head eyes, and pro-thorax, wing cases articulated in line lines, all surrounded by a fine border. The reverese with a label inscribed "Jan 1859". Very fine. Measurements- 6.5 X 4.5 cm. Estimated Value $400 - 500. Ex Collection of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Mackenzie - Fraser of Fraser Castel; Ex Christie's, London, 16 March 1977, Lot 32. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $552
Lot 1430		Blue Faience Wadjet Eye, ca. 1070- 653 BC. A finely made blue faience wadjet, inlaid, with contrasting white faience, the pupil very dark brown, the drop and curl in the form of a snake with a head raised. On the opposite end of this snake, is an inverted hawk head outlined by the white faience inlay. Excellent condition. Measures: 13 X 10 mm. Estimated Value $250 - 300. Ex Sotheby, London, 28 July 1970, Lot 88, part. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $360
Lot 1431		Painted Wooden Mummy Mask, Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 945-712 BC. A sensitively sculpted wood mummy mask from the lid of an anthropoid coffin, with areas of gesso and paint. The face has the classic wide white and black eyes, painted with thick black makeup and brownish-red pigment for the skin. He also wears a sort of hat that retains a bit of its original blue pigment. The mask retains six of its original dowels; pleasing expression. Measures: 29 X 22.5 cm. Estimated Value $400 - 500. Ex Bedelle Collection Boston, ca. 1967. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,000
Lot 1432		A 2-piece lot of Small Scarabs. 1) A Green feldspar (Amagonite) scarab, Late period, ca. 712-332 BC, with head, clypeus, pro-thorax, wing cases, etc. Delineated underneath the legs, articulated in relief, folded up against the body. Measures: 18 X 14 mm. Ex Christie's, London, 3 April 1973, Lot 150, part 2) A highly detailed green faience scarab, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664-525 BC. The head eyes, clypeus plate, pro-thorax, wing cases, with double incised line boarder, legs at sides are all anatomical articulated with fine attention to detail. Underneath the legs are folded into raised outline border that separated the base into two sections with a decorated loop attachment. Measures: 21 X 15 mm Ex Christie's London, 17 November 1977, Lot 475, part. Estimated Value $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $600
Lot 1433		Large-Sized Gilt Wooden Head of an Ibis, 26th - 30th Dynasties, ca. 664-342 BC. The realistic head and neck of an ibis elegantly carved, with careful attention to detail, as seen in the eyes and patterning of the bill. This wood sculpture was once attached to the wrapped mummy of an ibis by the circular discs at each end. Intact and in excellent condition, with only trivial flakes and losses to the gilding. Measures: 58 X 6 X 5 cm. Buyer responsible for third party shipping. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. Ex private Swiss collection of S.O.S 1972. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,688
Lot 1434		Small Duck Amulet, Late Dynasty 664-332 BC. A striped hard stone standing duck amulet, drilled through, between the webbed feet for attachment to the mummy. The hole was drilled at a downward angle from both the front and the back of the feet, so that when it was attached to the mummy wrappings it would be standing upright like in nature. Measures: 20 X 10 mm. Estimated Value $250 - 350. Ex Sotheby, London, 4 May, 1970, Lot 42, part. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $550
Lot 1435		Bronze Statuette of a Seated Horus, Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. A votive statuette of god Horus seated, nude except for a wig and double crown. The legs have been broken and glued back. Top of crown is missing. Mounted on thrown. Heavily corroded. Poor condition. Measures: 15 X 8 X 6 cm (with base). Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $275
Lot 1436		A 5-piece lot of Wadjet Eyes, from different periods. 1) A blue-turquoise wadjet eye, ca. 26th dynasty 664-524 BC, with fine outline of features, both sides with raised black pupil. Measures: 15 X 10.5 mm. 2) A blue-turquoise faience wadjet eye with black pupil and black top outline, Third Intermediate period, 21st -25th dynasty, ca. 1069-702 BC. Measures: 22 X 15 mm. 3) A light blue-turquoise faience wadjet eye with black pupil and black top outline, Third Intermediate period, 21st -25th dynasty, ca. 1069-702 BC. Measures: 20 X 15 mm. 4) A green faience wadjet eye with a black pupil and black top outline, Third Intermediate period, 21st -25th dynasty, ca. 1069-702 BC. Measures: 25 X 15 mm. 5) A turquoise faience wadjet, New Kingdom, ca. 1550- 1070 BC. The eye, pupil, drop and spiral curl are outlined in black (in a most painterly fashion.) Measures: 18 X 12 mm. All are Pierced lengthwise for suspension. Estimated Value $500-UP. Ex Sotheby, London, 28 July 1970, Lot 88, part. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $325
Lot 1437		Limestone Stela Fragment Relief of a Priestess, Thirtieth Dynasty, ca. 380-342 BC. A beautiful, well incised, relief fragment of an a woman facing right, with her right arm raised; a cannonized carving of a priestess wearing a long stylized wig, possibly a vulture headdress, and choker necklace; frontal eyes with a thick band of eye makeup. Cf. Limestone door jamb from Serapeum, Saqqara. Mounted on black stand. Measures: 14 X 14 cm. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,560
Lot 1438		Painted Egyptian Wood Panel, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 323-300 BC. A wood panel painted with the image of two winged deities, probably Nut and Isis, facing each other, wearing long tunics; the from wing lowered and back one raised to flank an unidentified object in the center; the right diety, holds a reed leaf in each hand; above, cornice with a red and blue alternating pattern. Weathered. Original pegs intact. Measures: 17 X 16 cm. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $475
Lot 1439		A 3-piece lot of Wadjet Eyes, ca. 3rd-1st Century BC. 1) A colored glass wadjet eye. The outline of the turquoise glass; the background white, the pupil black; the turquoise spiral curling from eye along the bottom edge; the upper eye lid formed of a line of turquoise and black zig-zag patterns along the top; back, white with touches of light ochre; the colors are both applied and also inset. Pierced lengthwise for suspension. Choice condition. Measures: 17.5 X 13 mm. 2) An glass flat and backed wadjet eye of attractive bluish-brown swirls, mixed with cream-colored areas, decorated loop above, well made and choice condition. Measures: 20 X 15 mm. 3) A small and well-made black and white diorite wadjet eye, one side slightly convex. The pattern of black and white areas chosen to resemble a white pupil on a black background. Pierced lengthwise for suspension. Choice condition. Measures: 11.5 X 9.5 mm. Estimated Value $300 - 400. Ex Sotheby, London, 28 July 1970's. Lot 88, part. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $213
Lot 1440		Alexandrian Terracotta Harpokrates, 2nd-1st century BC. A small hollow terracotta figurine of the young god, Harpocrates. Harpocrates was a Greek adaptation of the god Horus, as a child. He wears a double crown and he holds a round pot. Some ancient damage to the stomach area of figure. Mounded on custom stand. Measures: 20 X 8 cm. Estimated Value $150 - 200. Ex private Swiss collection of S.O.S 1972 in 1960's. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $102
Lot 1441		Romano-Egyptian Gold Serapis and Isis Ring, ca. 1st Century AD. A Egyptian ring made under Roman rule, of the god Serapis and goddess Isis. It is made of one piece of gold twisted around two times and terminating on one side with a stylized bust of Isis on one end and a stylized Serapis on the other; both deities are rendered in the form of cobras. Choice condition. Completely intact and wearable. Measures: 6 ring size; Weighs: 5.5 gm. Cobras were honored and worshipped for their protective qualities. There is a myth were Ra was bitten by a snake made by Isis, from soil and Ra's saliva. Isis agreed to heal Ra if he told her his true name. With this agreement she was then known as "mistress of the gods, who knows Ra by his own name." Serapis, who by this point was interchangeable with Osiris, was the consort of Isis and the pair embodied the forces of male and female fertility. Very similar ring is on the British Museums Online collection, Museum # 1926,0407.12. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. Ex Harlan J. Berk Collection, Ltd. 2000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,240