Lot 69
  • 69

Six Faience and Steatite Amulets and Seals , Middle Kingdom/New Kingdom, 1987-1075 B.C.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Six Faience and Steatite Amulets and Seals
  • 3/16 to 7/8 in. 5 to 2.3 cm.
comprising a diminutive amethyst seated frog with lateral suspension hole, a diminutive green-glazed steatite frog with Maat(?) engraved underneath, a deep lavender blue faience frog resting on an oval base molded underneath with three signs including a neb and a nefer, a blue faience frog with large applied red eyes seated on an oval base with ankh underneath, a brilliant turquoise faience necklace element in the form of a nefer sign, and a green-glazed steatite reclining ibex inscribed underneath with two cartouches, one containing the prenomen of Tuthmosis III, three more cartouches carved on the back of the animal, details incised.

Provenance

The Charterhouse Collection (Sotheby's, London, November 5th, 2002), for the ibex