Polychrome cartonnage ensemble in two sections. The upper section depicting a winged solar disk with uraei, disced falcon-head terminals and elaborate broad collar. The lower section depicts a kneeling winged Nut with outstretched wings and hands grasping Maat feathers. Two of the four sons of Horus depicted on each side - Imsety in human form, protector of the liver and Duamutef in jackal form, protector of the stomach. Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 B.C. Upper section measures 8 inches X 6.5 inches. ...click for details
Depicting a winged Nike facing a robed female figure and decorated with a floral design on shoulder. 5th Century B.C. 7 5/8 inches high. Small chip on shoulder. From the New York estate of Katherin Rosin, acquired in the 1960s.
The seated deity wears the disc crown with horns, vulture headdress and frontal uraeus, with finely incised tripartite wig, wearing close fitting garment, her right hand offers her breast to infant Horus seated on her lap. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. 5 1/4 inches high. Tip of horn re-attached. From an old NYC collection.
Depicted nude, wearing the Nemes headress, fronted with ureaus, wearing a long sidelock, legs together, arms alongside legs and wearing a highly unusual and rare crown. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. 4 inches high. From an old Belgian estate, collected in the 1970s.
A Cypriot bichrome ware amphora.
The body with encircling red and black bands, the neck and shoulder decorated on either side with rosettes. Cypro-Archaic, circa 750-600 B.C. 13 inches high. Intact with losses to pigment. Ex. Estate of Norio Azuma, collected before 1982.
Upper part of a blue faience shabti with a vertical ine of hieroglyphic text on back. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. 1 5/8 inches high. Losses as shown. From an old NYC collection.
An Egyptian bronze seated figure of Harpocrates. Depicted nude, wearing a close-fitting skull cap with frontal uraeus and a thick, striated, Sidelock of Youth. Feet, with defined toes, alongside each other and both arms alongside his body. Late Period, after 600 B.C. 3 inches high. Remains of suspension loop behind neck. From the New York Estate of Norio Azuma, collected before 1982.
An Egyptian bronze seated figure of Harpocrates. Depicted nude, wearing a close-fitting skull cap with frontal uraeus and Sidelock of Youth. Feet alongside each other and both arms alongside his body. Late Period, after 600 B.C. 3 inches high. Legs re-attached below knees. Old Belgian family collection, collected in the 1970's.
With bulbous body, decorated with a striding lion with ferocious expression, with thick mane and his tail curved above his rear, decorated with circular lines below and above the lion, tongue design on and below spout. 5th Century B.C. 2 1/8 inches high. Extensvie remains of original pigment. Handle repaired. From an old French collection.
Depicted as a pregnant female hippopotamus, wearing a tripartite wig, with human breasts, the hind legs of a lion and the tail of a crocodile. Late Period, 600-332 B.C. 1 3/4 inches high. Intact with intact suspension loop. Ex. Lauwers family collection, Belgium, collected in the 1970s. Tauret's most common role was as a protectoress of pregnant women.
