Lot 88
88
A COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN TWO CASES
A COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN TWO CASES
A COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN TWO CASES
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A COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN TWO CASES
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This lot is offered without reserve. PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
A COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN TWO CASES

THIRD INTERMEDIATE -LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1069-525 B.C. WITH SOME AFTER THE ANTIQUE

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A COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN TWO CASES
THIRD INTERMEDIATE -LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1069-525 B.C. WITH SOME AFTER THE ANTIQUE
Mummy net: 191/4 in. (49 cm.) long max.
Provenance
Edward Herbert Fison (1847-1931) collection, Ipswich, UK, acquired Thebes and Bubastis 1899; thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Phillips, 10 April 2000, lot 1 (part); acquired by a descendant of Edward Herbert Fison.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 2 May 2013, lot 68 and 69.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The display case with handwritten note reading, 'The contents of this case were found at Thebes and Bubastis (Egypt), and were brought from thence by E. H. Fison...'. The cases include a turquoise shabti for Hor; a blue faience shabti with painted wig, inscribed for a priest of Amun reading Amun-em-ipet; a bronze false beard; a bright blue faience shabti with painted wig, inscribed for Istem-Kheb and four strands of tubular faience beads terminating in a Four Sons of Horus Hapy-baboon amulet.

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