The following seven lots (1-7) are from the John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London. John Marriott was the only son of Major-General Sir John Charles Oakes Marriott (1895-1978), a British Army officer during WWI and WWII and his wife Maud Emily Wolff Kahn (1897-1960), the daughter of Otto Hermann Kahn, American investment banker, collector, philanthropist and patron of the arts.
John Marriott was a painter and keen art collector, mainly focusing on Asian art, and he expanded the family collection with passion and attention to detail, together with his lifelong friend Count R. L. Sangorski (1940-2014).
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AN EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, circa 1069-984 B.C.
With details of the striated wig, the seed bag over the back, holding two picks, and a column of text added with black paint for 'Nes[...]imn', 7cm high
Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed prior to 1980. John Marriott and Count R. L. Sangorski expanded the family collection originally formed by his grandparents Otto and Addie Kahn and his parents Sir John & Lady Marriott throughout the first half of the 20th Century.
£150-£250
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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI
Late Period, 30th Dynasty, circa 400-350 B.C.
The elongated mummiform figure holding a hoe and an adze, the front with a double row of T-shaped text added in blue glaze, for 'Ankhep', and a seed bag painted over the left shoulder, 18.3cm high
Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed prior to 1980. Accompanied by a copy of a Christie's valuation dated 13 August 1993 and by a photograph of the shabti displayed in John Marriot's house.
£700-£900
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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI
Late Period, 30th Dynasty, circa 400-350 B.C.
The elongated mummiform figure holding a hoe and an adze, the front with a double row of T-shaped text added in blue glaze, for 'Ankhep', and a seed bag painted over the left shoulder, 18.5cm high
Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed prior to 1980. Accompanied by a copy of a Christie's valuation dated 13 August 1993 and by a photograph of the shabti displayed in John Marriot's house.
£700-£900
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THREE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURES
Circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.
Including a figure of squatting Harpocrates holding a jar, another bust of Harpocrates with a crown holding a jar, and a head of Isis-Aphrodite, 7cm-9cm high; together with an After the Antique terracotta theatre mask, 11.5cm high (4)
Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed prior to 1980. John Marriott and Count R. L. Sangorski expanded the family collection originally formed by his grandparents Otto and Addie Kahn and his parents Sir John & Lady Marriott throughout the first half of the 20th Century.
£300-£500
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A EUROPEAN GREEN GLASS 'GREEK FIRE' HAND GRENADE
Circa 16th-18th Century A.D.
With thick-walled bulbous body and wide rim, 11cm high
Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed prior to 1980. John Marriott and Count R. L. Sangorski expanded the family collection originally formed by his grandparents Otto and Addie Kahn and his parents Sir John & Lady Marriott throughout the first half of the 20th Century. Accompanied by a copy of a Christie's valuation dated 13 August 1993.
£100-£200
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THREE ROMAN GREEN GLASS VESSELS
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Including a squat bodied flask on raised flaring foot, 13cm high; an unguentarium with piriform body and funnel rim, 12cm high; and an unguentarium with spherical body and long tapering neck, 13.5cm high (3)
Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed prior to 1980. John Marriott and Count R. L. Sangorski expanded the family collection originally formed by his grandparents Otto and Addie Kahn and his parents Sir John & Lady Marriott throughout the first half of the 20th Century. Accompanied by a copy of a Christie's valuation dated 13 August 1993.
£400-£600
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A ROMAN LIMESTONE MALE PORTRAIT HEAD
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Possibly from a large relief, the back flat and unworked, depicting a man with full beard, pronounced cheekbones and curly hair falling over the forehead, 23cm high
Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed prior to 1980. John Marriott and Count R. L. Sangorski expanded the family collection originally formed by his grandparents Otto and Addie Kahn and his parents Sir John & Lady Marriott throughout the first half of the 20th Century. Accompanied by an invoice from Asprey London for mounting the head on the green calf leather plinth, dated 13 June 1975, and by a photograph of the head displayed in John Marriott's house dated 1 September 1991.
£3,000-£5,000
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A FRAGMENTARY ETRUSCAN BLACK-FIGURE STAMNOS
Circa early 5th Century A.D. With details added in white slip, depicting on both sides a winged Hermes, wearing the typical winged sandals and holding a rope in each hand, facing a female figure wearing a chiton and himation, with palmettes in the field, rays above the foot and tongues below the rim, 28cm high
Provenance: Alexandre Nicolai (1865-1952) Collection, Bordeaux, France. Thence by descent.
Literature: the iconography on this stamnos appears to be near the Group of Munich 883, ca. 500-470, cf. M. Martelli (ed.), La ceramica degli Etruschi. La Pittura vascolare, 1987, p. 180, fig. 133.
£400-£600
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AN ETRUSCAN BUCCHERO WARE OINOCHOE
Circa 6th Century B.C. With trefoil lip, slightly squat round body and handle with round cross-section joining the flaring rim with two rotellae, decorated with incised bands on the body and neck, a band of tongues on the shoulder terminating with scrolls either side of the handle, 34.2cm high
Provenance: English deceased estate of a dentist, acquired in the 1990s.
£1,000-£1,500
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A GREEK ALABASTER ALABASTRON
Circa 6th Century B.C.
The elongated body tapering to the neck, with wide disc rim and small lug handles, with collection no. A7/68 written on the base, 24.5cm high
Provenance: Nikos Paschalis (1918-1948) Collection, Greece and Egypt, thence by descent through the sister, Assimina Paschalis, in Melbourne, Australia in 1965. Mr Paschalis was the grandson of George Paschalis, the founder of the Paschalion Archaeophylakeion Museum in Samos, Greece in 1912. He spent time in Alexandria, Egypt with the British Army during and after the Second World War.
£800-£1,200
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AN ITALO-CORINTHIAN STYLE POTTERY FIGURAL VESSEL
In the shape of a crouching lion, the tail curled around the mouth of the vessel, 8.5cm long
Provenance: Dr. Malcolm Hardy Collection, Chapel Hill, NC, purchased from Merrin Gallery, New York, in 1978. Accompanied by a copy of the invoice dated 15 December 1978.
£200-£300
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TWO GREEK TERRACOTTA VESSELS
Circa 4th Century B.C.
Including a red-figure lekythos decorated with a winged Nike, 12.5cm high; and a black glazed jug with trefoil lip, 9cm high (2)
Provenance: Welsh private collection, acquired prior to 1915. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from the British Museum dated 19 June 1915 and by another copy of a letter from the National Museum of Wales dated 9 November 1919, both with photographs of the vessels.
£200-£300
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A GREEK RED-FIGURE LEKANIS
Apulia, circa 4th Century B.C.
The lid decorated with a female profile head and palmettes, lid and body possibly not belonging, 14.5cm diam incl. handles
Provenance: Rizzi family collection, London, formed in the 1970s.
£200-£300
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TWO GREEK BLACK GLAZED VESSELS
Gnathia, circa 4th Century B.C.
Including an oinochoe decorated with a band of grapes and vines, 15cm high; and another juglet with ribbed body and a band of laurel over the neck, 11cm high (2)
Provenance: Rizzi family collection, London, formed in the 1970s.
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TWO GREEK BLACK GLAZED VESSELS
Gnathia, circa 4th Century B.C.
Including a small skyphos decorated with a band of grapes and vines, 8.5cm high; and a thistle mug with painted decoration around the neck, 11.5cm high (2)
Provenance: Rizzi family collection, London, formed in the 1970s.
£350-£450
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FOUR ANCIENT TERRACOTTA VESSELS
Bronze Age to Roman Period, circa 3200 B.C. to 4th Century A.D.
Including a Holy Land jug with flaring rim decorated with red slip, Trans-Jordan circa 3200 B.C., 10cm high; an Iron Age pilgrim's flask, with remains of black concentric circles on the body, circa 1200 B.C., 14cm high; a Roman cup with ribbed body, 8cm high, and an oil lamp decorated with Artemis on the tondo holding a bow, 12cm long, circa 3rd-4th Century A.D. (4)
Provenance: English private collection, purchased from Vanessa Purcell, Manchester, in 1995. Accompanied by a copy of the invoice dated 29 April 1995.
£150-£250
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A GROUP OF CLASSICAL TERRACOTTAS AND OTHER ARTEFACTS
Circa 4th B.C. to 2nd Century A.D. Including seven Greek and Hellenistic female heads, 2cm-7cm high; and five male heads including a head of Silenus, 2cm-5.5cm high; two Roman vessel fragments, one in the shape of a bull's head and another as a bust of Aphrodite, 4cm-7cm long; a Roman bone doll, 16cm long; and two After the Antique figures, Not Ancient, 8.5cm-21.5cm high (17)
Provenance: Marcus Brooke (1923-2015) Collection, Glasgow, formed in the 1960s-1970s.
£150-£250
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A GROUP OF ROMAN AND ISLAMIC ARTEFACTS
Circa 2nd-8th Century A.D. Including a Roman red slip ware bowl, 14cm diam; a Roman jug, 19.5cm high; a Roman bronze coin; a Byzantine oil lamp with a cross below the foot, 10cm long; and two early Islamic terracotta vessels, 5cm-18cm high (6)
Provenance: UK private collection, acquired in Bristol prior to 2000, thence by descent.
£100-£200
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TWO ROMAN TERRACOTTA FIGURES OF APHRODITE
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
One depicted nude bringing her right arm to her breast, flanked by an Eros, 21.5cm high; the other holding drapery with both her hands, 18cm high (2)
Provenance: Alexandre Nicolai (1865-1952) Collection, Bordeaux, France. Thence by descent.
£80-£120
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A ROMAN TERRACOTTA HOLLOW-BACKED MASK
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Possibly representing a new Comedy courtesan or Hetaira, with centrally-parted hair and wearing a forehead tassel, pierced at the top for suspension, 13cm high
Provenance: Marcus Brooke (1923-2015) Collection, Glasgow, formed in the 1960s-1970s.
£150-£250
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A HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA FOOTED PLATE
Circa 3rd Century B.C.
Decorated with a four-petalled rosette surrounded by a band of waves over the rim, 15cm diam; together with a terracotta mould, 21cm long (2)
Provenance: Louis Schendler Collection, London, formed in the 1960s-1970s, thence by descent.
£100-£150
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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF TYCHE-FORTUNA
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Wearing a long himation covering the modius over her head, holding a long staff or torch and a bunch of spikes of wheat, 9cm high
Provenance: English private collection, London, Mr A. H., acquired in 2012. German private collection formed in the 1990s
£800-£1,200
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A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS FRAGMENT
Circa early 3rd Century A.D.
Depicting a male head with full beard and curly hair, with the remains of a scallop shell behind, 17cm high
Provenance: David Knight (1951-1993) Collection, London, acquired between the late 1970s-1980s.
Literature: for another more complete fragment from a sarcophagus of this type now in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA, cf. C. C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, 1984, p. 250. Another similar example was discussed by C. C. Vermeule in an article for Minerva Magazine, January 1997 issue.
£1,500-£1,800
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A ROMAN MARBLE STELE
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Carved in relief with the god Hermes, depicted nude holding the caduceus and the bag of money, standing next to Athena, wearing the Corinthian helmet and holding a spear and a shield, 20cm high
Provenance: with Mariaud de Serres, Paris, in the 1980s.
£200-£300
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A ROMAN BRONZE LADLE
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. With shallow bowl, the handle terminating in a deer's head, with short horns and large ears, two spurs at the thick rim of the bowl, 30cm long
Provenance: English private collection, acquired in the 1990s.
£500-£800
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A ROMAN BRONZE VESSEL HANDLE
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Of arching shape, the two hook terminals in the shape of ducks heads, 31cm long
Provenance: English private collection, formed circa mid-20th Century.
£100-£150
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A ROMAN BRONZE MOUNT WITH HUNTING SCENE
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. Possibly from a vessel, showing a large feline, possibly a lion, attacking a hunting dog, two other dogs jumping towards the lion from either side, decorated with foliage along the edges, with two drilled holes at the top for attachment, one with remains of an iron rivet, 5.5cm long
Provenance: English private collection, acquired in the 1990s.
£250-£350
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A ROMAN SILVER SPOON
Circa 4th Century A.D.
With pear-shaped bowl and tapering straight handle, 15.5cm long
Provenance: John Hayward Collection, UK, formed in the 1970s.
£300-£400
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TWO ROMAN STONE FRAGMENTS
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Including a limestone capital fragment, approx 22cm long; and a marble frieze fragment, approx 33cm high (2)
Provenance: English private collection, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
£100-£200
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A GROUP OF MISCELLANEOUS GRAND TOUR SOUVENIRS
Including a terracotta figure of a bearded man, a bronze figure with stylised flat round head, a roundel painted with a rosette, and other terracotta fragments, bronzes and glass beads, Not Ancient; together with A GROUP OF ROMAN AND BYZANTINE BRONZES, circa 2nd-7th Century A.D., including roundels, rings, furniture attachments, a reliquary cross and a weight with silver inlay, 1.5cm-8cm long; and FOUR CLASSICAL TERRACOTTAS, circa 3rd Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D., including two Hellenistic female heads and three oil lamps, 3.5cm-10.5cm long (a lot)
Provenance: the two terracotta heads collected by Edward Seymour Thomas in Egypt circa 1900.
£80-£120
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A GERMAN OR ITALIAN PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF A ROMAN SLAVE
Circa 19th Century A.D.
Provenance: Frankenstein Collection, Berlin, formed before 1933.
£60-£80
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A GRAND TOUR BRONZE BUST OF A ROMAN EMPEROR
Circa 18th-19th Century A.D.
Provenance: H. Abarbanell Collection.
£40-£60
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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF ATHENA
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Wearing the Corinthian helmet, with wavy centrally-parted hair and almond-shaped eyes, flat-backed, possibly from a relief, 12cm high
Provenance: Antoni Sikorski Collection, London, formed between the 1950s-1970s.
£1,500-£2,000
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A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF CLASSICAL ARTEFACTS
Circa 10th Century B.C. - 3rd Century A.D.
Including a Sardinian bronze archer fragment, circa 8th-7th Century B.C., 7cm high; a Luristan bronze stag, circa 10th-8th Century B.C., 5cm long; an Attic black glazed lekythos, circa 4th Century B.C., 8cm high; two Romano-Egyptian frog oil lamps, a terracotta figure of Baubo, and four heads, circa 3rd Century B.C./A.D., 3.5cm-9cm long; a Greek bronze miniature juglet and a silver ram amulet fragment, circa 1st-3rd Century A.D., 3cm-3.5cm long (12)
Provenance: Antoni Sikorski Collection, London, formed between the 1950s-1970s.
£300-£400
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN HARDSTONE AND BRONZE AMULETS AND FRAGMENTS
Second Intermediate Period to Ptolemaic Period, circa 1786-30 B.C.
Including a steatite 'sma' amulet, a squatting baboon with plumed headdress, a Ptolemaic steatite Baubo amulet, a Ramesside plaque for Tuthmosis III, another plaque with kneeling royal figure and one with fish, a scarab with figure of Ptah and three others, three udjat eyes, a hematite scarab, a lapis lazuli squatting baboon, a bronze headdress, 11-35mm long; and a group of carnelian beads; together with four hardstone amulets including a carnelian frog, 14mm-40mm long, possibly Not Ancient; and three other After the Antique artefacts (29)
Provenance: Antoni Sikorski Collection, London, formed between the 1950s-1970s.
£300-£400
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION AMULETS AND SHABTIS
New Kingdom to Late Period, circa 1550-332 B.C.
Including six udjat amulets, three amulets of Shu, a finely molded djed pillar, one of Bes, a scarab, a trussed ox, and pyramid seal, 12mm-47mm long; a 'torpedo' vessel on later foot, 5.8cm high; a mummy bead necklace; and three miniature shabtis, one inscribed at the back for 'Osiris Wennefer', 4.8cm-6.7cm long; together with three small shabtis, a fragment of deity, a falcon amulet, Not Ancient (25)
Provenance: Antoni Sikorski Collection, London, formed between the 1950s-1970s.
£300-£400
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN ARTEFACTS
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Including two limestone heads, with short wigs and fillet, with remains of black and pink pigment, 3.5cm-4.3cm high; and a bronze ichneumon sarcophagus, 5.5cm long; together with two Bronze Age marble crescent-shaped idols, circa 3000 B.C., 6.5cm-9cm long (5)
Provenance: Antoni Sikorski Collection, London, formed between the 1950s-1970s.
£300-£400
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AN EGYPTIAN RED BURNISHED WARE JAR
Pre-dynastic Period, Naqada I, circa 3500 B.C.
The ovoid body with flat base and everted rim, with ancient kill hole in the side, 21cm high
Provenance: Richard and Donna Curtiss Collection, Washington, acquired in the 1960s and donated to the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. Deaccessioned by the C. Carlos Museum in 2010. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from Peter Lacovara on behalf of the museum dated 15 June 2010.
£400-£600
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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER JAR
Old Kingdom, 4th-6th Dynasty, circa 2613-2181 B.C.
The cylindrical, slightly waisted, body with thick rounded rim and flaring base, pencil inscribed on the underside 'No 6', 27cm high
Provenance: Mme Marcelle Desurmont-Prouvost (1892-1972) Collection, Paris, thence by descent to M. H. François-Marsal, Nantes. Accompanied by a copy of an insurance valuation from Jean-Loup Despras, Paris, mentioning the vessel (no 24) and dated 6 March 1979. Marcelle Desurmont, neé Prouvost, came from a successful textile industrialist family from the North of France. She formed her collection of Egyptian stone vessels in the 1940s.
£1,200-£1,500
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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SHABTI
New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, 19th Dynasty, circa 1295-1070 B.C. The mummiform figure, wearing a tripartite wig with hands crossed to hold agricultural implements, 21cm high
Provenance: Irish deceased estate of an archaeologist, formed prior to 1965.
£250-£350
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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES
Middle Kingdom to Late Period, circa 2133- 332 B.C.
Including a wood model of a boat, 56cm long, and a seated boatman with remains of red pigment, the legs and arms now missing, 11cm high, Middle Kingdom, circa 2133-1797 B.C.; two mummy bead necklaces, restrung, composed of tubular and spacer disc glazed composition beads and a shabti, the feet missing, Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C., and later beads (5)
Provenance: Anthony Foley Collection, England, acquired in the 1970s.
£400-£600
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF BASTET
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
The cat-headed goddess depicted standing, wearing a tight-fitting long dress, holding an aegis to her chest in her left hand, 10cm high
Provenance: English private collection, acquired by Mr S. B., London, in the early 20th Century, thence by descent to his son, Mr J. B. (1920-1972) and finally to his grandson, the present owner.
£700-£900
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THREE MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIES
Circa 7th Century B.C. - 3rd Century A.D.
Including an Egyptian wood sarcophagus mask, possibly from a child's coffin, with remains of the tripartite wig, 18.5cm long; an Egyptian alabaster alabastron, with flat base, elongated body tapering to the neck and disc rim, with two small lug handles, 14.5cm high; together with a Roman glass flask, with later painted decoration, 8cm high (3)
Provenance: English private collection, purchased at Phillips, London, and Bonhams, Lots Road, in the early 1990s.
£400-£600
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AN EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE GLAZED COMPOSITION TILE
Old Kingdom, circa 2686-2181 B.C.
Of rectangular shape, with slightly convex surface and flat raised section at the back pierced for attachment, 6cm x 3.5cm
Provenance: French private collection, Paris, Mr P. D., acquired before 1980.
£200-£300
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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION MUMMY BEAD MASK
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
The re-strung mask composed of disc-shaped spacer beads, the green face with zig-zag tubular bead border, the eyes and eyebrows outlined in black, the angular nose and the mouth formed of coral pink beads, 14cm long
Provenance: with Mariaud de Serres, Paris, in the 1980s.
£150-£200
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AN EGYPTIAN GOLD APPLIQUE'
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Worked in repousse' in the shape of the winged goddess Isis, kneeling with outstretched arms and wings, pierced for stitching, 6.5cm long
Provenance: Spanish private collection, purchased from Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg in 1970.
£1,000-£1,500
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A GROUP OF MISCELLANEOUS EGYPTIAN ITEMS
New Kingdom to Roman Period, circa 16th Century B.C. to 3rd Century A.D. and later
Including four steatite scarabs, a glazed composition openwork udjat eye amulet, a small wood figure, a large fragment of Romano-Egyptian bright blue glazed composition vessel and another fragment, a terracotta figure of Harpokrates; and a number of other Egyptian shabtis and amulets, Not Ancient (a lot)
Provenance: Egypt Exploration Society, acquired between the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century. Klein Collection and Mrs French Collection. Rossetti Collection, between Egypt and England, first half of the 20th Century.
£150-£200
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A NUBIAN OVER-DOOR HANGING EGYPTIAN-STYLE SCENE
275cm x 180cm
£100-£150
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A NUBIAN HANGING EGYPTIAN-STYLE SCENE
180cm x 57cm
£80-£120
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THREE NUBIAN HANGING EGYPTIAN-STYLE SCENES
57cm x 57cm; 242cm x 35cm; 65cm x 65cm (3)
£100-£150
The Horatio & Patsy Melas Collection
| The following eighty-five lots (51-135) are from the Horatio & Patsy Melas Collection, formed in Alexandria, Egypt, during the first half of the 20th Century.
Horatio Melas came from a family of Greek merchants who moved to Alexandria in 1904. There Horatio met his wife Patsy and got married in 1960. In 1967 the family left Egypt and the collection was moved to Switzerland until 1989, when their son Kyros Melas moved to London. Whilst working in the City as a Private Equities trader he continued to look after the collection, occasionally expanding it until the late 1990s.
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