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Auction archive: Lot number 241

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE URAEUS FINIAL

Auction 29.10.2003
29 Oct 2003
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$838 - US$1,340
Price realised:
£1,410
ca. US$2,363
Auction archive: Lot number 241

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE URAEUS FINIAL

Auction 29.10.2003
29 Oct 2003
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$838 - US$1,340
Price realised:
£1,410
ca. US$2,363
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE URAEUS FINIAL CIRCA 6TH-1ST CENTURY B.C. The naturalistic body with detailed scales, with tail curled up behind raised body, wearing sun disk, on tapered base, 4¾ in. (12 cm.) high; a group of Egyptian bronze figures including a striding Apis bull wearing sun disk, 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high, a Horus falcon wearing double crown, 2 in. (5.2 cm.) high, and two miniature double Osiris figures, 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high max.; a group of Egyptian glazed composition amulets including turquoise figures of Bes wearing feather crown, Mekhit, Anubis and a Red Crown of Lower Egypt, 2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high max.; two glazed composition shabtis, 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high max., all Late Period-Ptolemaic, circa 6th-3rd Century B.C.; a blue glass tapered 'vessel' pendant with trailed loop handle, circa 4th Century A.D., 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high; and a Romano-Egyptian terracotta seated figure of a child wearing a bulla, armlets and side-lock, 2nd Century B.C./A.D., 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high(a lot)

Auction archive: Lot number 241
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE URAEUS FINIAL CIRCA 6TH-1ST CENTURY B.C. The naturalistic body with detailed scales, with tail curled up behind raised body, wearing sun disk, on tapered base, 4¾ in. (12 cm.) high; a group of Egyptian bronze figures including a striding Apis bull wearing sun disk, 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high, a Horus falcon wearing double crown, 2 in. (5.2 cm.) high, and two miniature double Osiris figures, 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high max.; a group of Egyptian glazed composition amulets including turquoise figures of Bes wearing feather crown, Mekhit, Anubis and a Red Crown of Lower Egypt, 2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) high max.; two glazed composition shabtis, 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high max., all Late Period-Ptolemaic, circa 6th-3rd Century B.C.; a blue glass tapered 'vessel' pendant with trailed loop handle, circa 4th Century A.D., 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high; and a Romano-Egyptian terracotta seated figure of a child wearing a bulla, armlets and side-lock, 2nd Century B.C./A.D., 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high(a lot)

Auction archive: Lot number 241
Auction:
Datum:
29 Oct 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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