Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
5th July 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/151
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    92 Nine Egyptian Ushabti figures, comprising three in the finest blue glaze—all inscribed ig 490 foe) 93 Fourteen others, comprising two in rich blue glaze, one in me a black steatite, and two in terra-cotta—all but fourinscribed ; — also a terra-cotta Roman head een and cornelian beads, from Esneh, Mere, Abydos, and | ne 4D | (a4 j A quantity of ancient Egyptian tubular and spherical faience —— other sites ; also an Indo-Persian silveréd copper bowl 95 A quantity of ancient Egyptian amethyst, cornelian and blue faience beads, from Esneh, Abydos and other sites [Ite {/ , 96 ) Six specimens of Mercetic | pottery from Prof. Garstang’s ce /' ee excavations, comprising’a bowl, with incised scale pattern decoration - “another, with Ankh’s in brown pigment; a _ vase, with ovoid body, rounded lip and long spout; and three others 7h), ; ez) Four others, comprising a shallow bowl, with red band of ee decoration on the outer side ;a tall cylindrical vase ; a tiwo- handled cup; and a wide-necked bowl, with band of incised decoration—from the Royal City Mere, Prof. Garstang’s excavations — Beis Sit Vg }) €&] ‘198 ) Five Pre-dynastic and early Dynastic Egyptian bowls, in red ~~ glazed pottery ; two Greek lekythi; and six other early pottery vessels nil TO3_ Ten black pottery vessels, comprising a. large shell-shaped ampulla —fine ; ue Peruvian vessels; a St. Menas “pilgrim bottle’; &e. ~ \ ay a 99 } Nineteen small vessels, in arragonite and granite, chiefly ~ | t rr ct from excavations at Abydos in 1909; also a marble AN a rubber ; and two fragments if \ te : (100)) An arragonite vase, with ovoid body and sessile lip—64 in. » RK. O4 ena high ; four Kohl vases, in arragonite, with lids, and two in za grey stone—mostly from Garstang’s excavations at Be Abydos aon —T (101 ‘\A circular table of offerings, in arragonite—15 in. diam.— - iges | J] fim; anda cylindrical vase, with projecting rounded lip, a / ae in the same stone—94 in. high i 7a < a -(102 > Iwo shallow bowls, in arragonite—10 in. and 84 an. diam. ; (>. \ a also an arragonite vase, with flattened spherical body, V7 ——— short neck and expanding flat lip (broken)—5k in. high