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...'
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NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1550-525 B.C.
Details
A COLLECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES
NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1550-525 B.C.
Including a turquoise shabti with details in black, the front inscribed 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; a white glazed shabti fragment with dark blue inscription; a blue bead mummy net with four Sons of Horus amulets attached; a blue faience winged scarab and a blue and yellow glazed composition bead necklace with nine lotus bud pendants
Mummy net: 19¼ in. (49 cm.) long max.
NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1550-525 B.C.
Including a turquoise shabti with details in black, the front inscribed 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; a white glazed shabti fragment with dark blue inscription; a blue bead mummy net with four Sons of Horus amulets attached; a blue faience winged scarab and a blue and yellow glazed composition bead necklace with nine lotus bud pendants
Mummy net: 19¼ 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; acquired by a descendant of Edward Herbert Fison.
Anonymous sale; Phillips, 10 April 2000, lot 1; acquired by a descendant of Edward Herbert Fison.
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