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A Group of Egyptian Antiquities, Old Kingdom/Late Period, circa 3000 B.C.-30 B.C.
Estimate
1,600 - 2,400 USD
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Description
- A Group of Egyptian Antiquities
- Height of vase 2 3/4 in. 7 cm.; height of Harpocrates 3 3/4 in. 9.5 cm.
comprising a stone flask of pointed ovoid stone in striated black and greenish yellow stone, a bronze figure of Harpocrates seated with his forefinger pointed to his mouth and wearing a cap with uraeus and sidelock, a blue faience scarab decorated underneath with a couchant sphinx wearing a double crown, a winged sphinx in the field, two steatite scarabs, one with the prenomen of Tuthmosis III, the other with a striding king or deity, the first two mounted in stickpins, a group of tubular blue faience beads and blue green and red disk spacers strung together as a necklace, and a group of tubular coral beads and faience disk spacers in numerous colors strung together as a necklace.
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, nos. 7, 40, illus., 70, and 57