SAITE PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI FACE FRAGMENT
SAITE PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
Finely detailed facial features, wearing striated wig, mounted, 1¾ in. (4 cm.) high max.; an Egyptian bead necklace comprising 21 blue glazed composition tubular 'mummy' beads interspersed with 18 late Hellenistic gold sandwich glass 'amphora' pendants, 1st Century B.C. and earlier, 11 in. (28 cm.) long; and a string of mainly spherical lapis lazuli beads, interspersed with six cornelian disc beads, 1st millennium B.C., 10 in. (26 cm.) long, both restrung (3)

Provenance

Baurat Schiller collection (item two).
Wilhelm Horn (1870-1959); acquired from Schiller, 1934 (item two).

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Prof. Dr. R. Zahn, Sammlung Baurat Schiller, Rudolph Lepka's Kunt-auctions-haus, katalog 2008, Berlin, 1929, p. 71, no. 158, pl. 64 (item two).

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