THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Acquired in Egypt in 1811 onwards and thereafter by descent to the present owner.
Most of the Egyptian objects in this collection were acquired by W. E. Rouse Boughton F.R.S. in the course of a journey to Upper Egypt in 1811 which account was published as a letter (1814) to the Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. in Archaeologia, Vol. XVIII, 1815, pp. 1-14, pls. I-IV. He was encouraged and informed by his cousin, the eminent antiquarian collector W. Payne-Knight and his collection expanded into Classical antiquities, most notably Greek black-figure vases and a few terracottas.
These antiquities have lain at Rouse Boughton's country seat and, since World War I, have remained unseen until their rediscovery in the early part of this year. They include an interesting group of part shabtis (lots 192-192A) of the important official Padiamenopet, Dynasty XXV/XXVI (circa 650 B.C.), from his exceptionally large tomb 33 in the Assassîf, on the west bank of Thebes (Luxor). Interesting scenes on the Greek vases include lot 188 showing an aulos-player in a competition, and lot 189 a rare black-figure combat scene around the shoulder of a lekythos.
An Attic red-figure lekythos
5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
An Attic red-figure lekythos
5th Century B.C.
With an offering scene showing a woman wearing a chiton and himation holding out a patera in her left hand over an altar, a frieze of meander and crossed squares below, a band of tongues around the neck, repaired
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high
5th Century B.C.
With an offering scene showing a woman wearing a chiton and himation holding out a patera in her left hand over an altar, a frieze of meander and crossed squares below, a band of tongues around the neck, repaired
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high