Wearing a striated tripartite wig, arms crossed, hands grasping hoes, and with eleven lines of hieroglyphic text. Late Period, 600-400 B.C. 7 inches high. Repaired. Losses as shown. From an old private Belgian collection.
Finely detailed depiction of the god of the sun. With prominent facial details, full head of curly hair, pleated garment on shoulders and radiating spiked crown. 2nd/3rd Century. 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Intact. Ex. NYC collection. Helios was imagined as a handsome god crowned with the shining aureole of the sun. He drove the chariot of the sun across the sky each day to earth-circling Oceanus and through the world-ocean returned to the East at night.
Depicting two striding deities. Each figure wearing a kilt, wearing a disc crown and grasping a sceptre. 4 7/8 inches X 3 inches. Late Ptolemaic Period, 100-32 B.C. All original color. Framed. From a Belgian collection.
A striking silver gilt Roman bronze applique, depicting a bust of a youth inside a frame with incised border, with well-defined facial details,long incised wavy hair and wearing a garland around his neck. 2nd Century A.D. 3 3/4 inches X 3 3/4 inches. Ex. California private collection.
Gilded and polychrome Egyptian wood falcon. Ptolemaic Period, 300-50 B.C. 5 1/4 inches long. Some encrustations and minor losses. Ex. New Jersey private collection.
A brilliant blue faience handle from a sistrum. With a vertical line of hieroglyphic text along with vertical columns of elaborate design. Late Period, 600-332 B.C. 2 inches high. Intact as shown. From a French collection.
An ancient Egyptian limestone bust of a young girl. Wearing an elaborate tripartite hairstyle, with widening hair starting from the top of her head down to her neck. On her back, her hair is divided into three long plaits. Traces of original pigment. 2 inches high. XII-XIII Dynasty, 1963-1650 B.C. From an old French collection. For similar, see Pharaohs and Mortals, Egyptian Art In The Middle Kingdom, Fitzwilliam Museum Exhibition, April 19-June 26, 1988, #118.
The lid with two red-figure female heads on opposite sides, floral design on opposite sides, vertical lines around perimeter and a rosette on the knob handle, bowl on a round low foot and with twin handles. 3rd/4th Century B.C. 6 3/8 inches bowl handle span. Bowl and lid intact. From an old New Jersey collection.
With funnel spout, long neck and curved handle, scroll design on body and floral design on shoulder. 3rd/4th Century B.C. 4 inches high. Intact. Ex. Old New Jersey private collection.
Mold-made, hemispherical in form, the base with leaf and floral design and band of floral design on side. 2nd Century B.C. 4 1/4 inches diameter. Intact. Ex. NYC estate of Winifred Karpf, collected before 1980.
