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10 A GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI New Kingdom, 19th-20th Dynasty, Circa 12951070 B.C. Of typical mummiform in pale green faience, with a column of hieroglyphs on the front of the body reading the ‘Chief door keeper’, with the name unclear, 12cm high.
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Provenance: Ex Joseph Klein Collection, formed in New York between 1941 and 1980; thence by descent; Ex Bonham’s Knightsbridge, 8th May 2013, lot 131 (part).
6 6 AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C. Depicted mummiform with a broad torso, holding the crook and flail, wearing a wide collar with incised decoration, a false beard and an atef crown with frontal uraeus and incised side-plumes, his facial features finely depicted with a serene expression, 27.5cm high, 33.2cm high inc. mount.
£400-£600 11 AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER VESSEL Middle Kingdom, 11th - 13th Dynasty, Circa 2040 - 1648 B.C. The slim piriform body tapers down to a flared footed base, with a raised band running around the vessel just above its narrowest point, the slightly curved mouth curves in slightly with a simply rounded edge as this vessel would originally have had a separately carved rim, 15.2cm high.
Provenance: Collection of Alfred E. Mirsky (1900 - 1974). £2,000-£3,000 7 AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OXYRHYNCHUS Late Dynastic Period, 21st - 35th Dynasty, Circa 715 - 332 B.C. With a distinctive long, down-turned snout, the fish is crowned with uraei, cow’s horns and sun disc with double suspension loop behind, wearing a broad beaded collar around its gills and with hollow eyes recessed for inlay, perched on a sled, supported by its tail, rear fin and a striated prop below its belly, 11.6cm long. Exhibited: ‘Egypt Through the Artist’s Eye’, Holt Festival, Norfolk, 18th - 27th July 2014, exh. no. 28 and with Galerie Max Mayer and Chewday’s ‘The Middle Class go To Heaven’, part of Condo 2017.
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8 AN EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED HIPPOPOTAMUS Depicted with a large snout, bulging eyes, a plump body and short, stumpy legs, with decoration in dark pigment, highlighting the mouth, eyes and ears and depicting a lotus flower on the back of the head and on the haunches with dot designs on the flanks and forelegs, 15.3cm long, 6.3cm high. Provenance: Collection of Professor Abram Rigg (1909 - 1978), Cleveland, acquired in the 1930s; American private collection 2001.
Literature: For an example of an Oxyrhynchus fish crowned with horns and sun disc, but balanced on a pylon, see Madeleine Page-Gasser and Andre Weise, with Thomas Schneider and Sylvia Winterhalter, ‘Égypte, Moments d’éternité. Art égyptien dans les collections privées, Suisse’ (Mainz, 1998) pp. 281-282, no 190.
£700-£900
Provenance: Private collection, France, acquired in the 1970s.
Provenance: London private collection, acquired between 1979 and 1983.
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9 A FAIENCE FIGURE OF OSIRIS Possibly after the antique, the small figure of Osiris is depicted holding the crook and flail, wearing a false beard and an atef crown, 6cm high.
Literature: For a vase of similar form but without the band see Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie, ‘The Funeral Furniture of Egypt. Stone and Metal Vases’, reprinted Warminster, 1977, plate XXIX, no. 644. Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired between 1920 and 1970. £300-£500 12 AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION LOTUS CUP New Kingdom, 18th - 21st Dynasty, Circa 1550 1296 B.C. Standing on a circular foot surmounted by a short waisted stem, the bowl of the cup flares upwards, decorated with incised linear decoration creating the impression of a lotus flower, 11.2cm high. Literature: A similar, more detailed, example can be seen in the British Museum, museum no. EA26226. Provenance: Collection of Gawain McKinley (1945 - 1996), acquired 1978. £2,500-£4,500 5