Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June-July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/599
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    132 A carved wood seated Statuette of Hapi, the Nile God, i 4 wearing cluster of papyrus plants as head-dress, the figure still LLf5/— Z wee bears a portion of the original mummy wrappings and isrepre- ‘/ / irr /< sented with the usual hanging breasts, 7% 7n. high, of the greatest rarity, perhaps unique, mounted [PI. II] l POTTERY, &c. 2° @) A GREEN GLAZED FAIENCE FIGURE OF A SPHINX, wearing the —— Pschent, and holding a Kohl vase in front, 7 in. long, 64%n. high, very rare, Ptolemaic; exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1895 [PI. I] 1 134 A turquoise blue Vase of glazed faience, with raised conventional design, 5f7n. high; and two others of pkainer shapes 3 135 A miscellaneous lot of seven blne and green glazed pottery Vases, Romano-Egyptian 7 136 Hight others, mostly Romano-Kgyptian 8 137 ~=‘T'welve miscellaneous small Vases, in blue and green glaze, chiefly af the Kgypto-Roman period ; two fragments of fine faience Cups, with hunting scenes; and three other pieces hi 138 Nine miscellaneous glazed pottery Objects in the form of gods, amulets and animals, including a figure of a recumbent deer, a seated Isis with another deity, a cat’s head, ete., a curious lot 9 139 ‘Two one-handled Vases, with long inverted pear-shaped bodies and tapering necks; another, with» rudimentary handles; another, unglazed, 15 7n., 124¢n., ll¢in. and Bin. high respectively ; and a terra cotta and a clay Sealing, with peacock and other objects in relief ; 6 140 A Vase, in light unglazed pottery, of pale terra cotta colour, with lid confined to the bulbous body by a terra cotta ring,4% zn. high, a rare form; and a four-handled Vase, with pear-shaped body and flat base, decorated with spots of dark brown glaze, Tin. high, both Romano-HLgyptian y 141 Six miscellaneous terra cotta Figures, comprising one of unusual form, with Harpocrates and Bes figure decorations, perhaps a musical instrument, a cat, 54 %n. high, two birds, a figure of
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