TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NECKLACES

NEW KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1550-664 B.C.

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TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NECKLACES
NEW KINGDOM-THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1550-664 B.C.
One with long tubular blue faience beads with five suspended lotus beads; the other comprising of coloured faience and hardstone disc beads, including red, green, turquoise, black and cream, with five suspended turquoise faience seated cat amulets and one striding Bastet, both restrung
45 in. (114 cm.) and 15¾ in. (40 cm.) long respectively (2)

Provenance

Item one: Mary B. Newberry (1864-1945) collection, acquired Egypt 1912-1913; thence by descent to the present owner.
Item two: Private collection, UK, given as a gift to the present owner in 1968.

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Lot Essay

Mary B. Newberry travelled to Egypt with her daughter Doris in the winter of 1912-13 to accompany her cousin, the famous American Egyptologist, Theodore M. Davis.
See J. M. Adams, The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings, New York, to be published June 2013.

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