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NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN 'AMARNA' POLYCHROME GLAZED FRIT MUMMY BEAD NECKLACE
NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.
With blue, green, red, white and yellow disc beads, mounted; an Egyptian blue, turquoise and yellow five-stranded mummy bead necklace; a cornelian and turquoise glazed composition mummy bead necklace; a four strand green frit mummy bead necklace; a blue glazed composition mummy bead necklace with attached pottery shabti; a 'melon' bead necklace; an amuletic 'Amarna' necklace with fragmentary twin glass birds and a turquoise glazed composition baboon plaque, restrung, all 25 in. (63.4 cm.) long max.; a jasper hair ring, 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) diam.; a turquoise faience lotus bead and a conical bead; a group of nine terracotta amulet moulds, 2 in. (5 cm.) long max., all New Kingdom, circa 1359-1185 B.C.; and a group of miscellaneous items
(a lot)
NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.
With blue, green, red, white and yellow disc beads, mounted; an Egyptian blue, turquoise and yellow five-stranded mummy bead necklace; a cornelian and turquoise glazed composition mummy bead necklace; a four strand green frit mummy bead necklace; a blue glazed composition mummy bead necklace with attached pottery shabti; a 'melon' bead necklace; an amuletic 'Amarna' necklace with fragmentary twin glass birds and a turquoise glazed composition baboon plaque, restrung, all 25 in. (63.4 cm.) long max.; a jasper hair ring, 5/8 in. (1.5 cm.) diam.; a turquoise faience lotus bead and a conical bead; a group of nine terracotta amulet moulds, 2 in. (5 cm.) long max., all New Kingdom, circa 1359-1185 B.C.; and a group of miscellaneous items
(a lot)
Provenance
Item one (necklace): mounted on card labelled "Ancient Egyptian necklace, Egypt Exploration Society, exactly as found" (almost certainly from Tell el Amarna).Necklaces and hair ring: sold Christie's London, 6 May 1982, lot 108.
Terracotta moulds: sold Christie's London, 6 May 1982, lot 88.
Terracotta moulds: sold Christie's London, 6 May 1982, lot 88.
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