Rounded Lentoid bead with crossed flower and scroll pattern

Measurement: 1.1 x 1.1 x .5 cm

Material/colour: Glazed steatite. Beige bead with turquoise blue pigment remaining in pattern on reverse.

Technique: stone carving with glaze; pierced for suspension

Condition: Back is worn and chipped, but still shows signs of the original bright blue glaze...

Circular bead with carved flower and scroll pattern

Measurement: 1.1 cm x 1.15 x .5 cm

Material/colour: stone (steatite?) now cream, but blackened back suggests an original glaze, perhaps dark green.

Technique: stone carving with ceramic glaze; pierced for suspension.

Condition: Back is worn and slightly gritty; carved surface is well preserved; line encircling pattern somewhat worn and eccentric...

Green faience lentoid bead

Measurement: 1.5 cm x1 x .3

Material/colour: green glazed composition, faience. Technique: ceramic, moulded. Pierced through long axis for stringing.

Condition: glaze worn on back and almost completely absent from design, some chipping on boarders.

Date: Late Middle Kingdom – Second Intermediate Period...

Seal stamp with coiled cord design

Measurement: 1.3 diameter x .8 cm

Material/colour: white steatite, no evidence of glaze

Technique: stone carving, drilled for suspension; no decoration on obverse.

Condition: a crack has developed but does not threaten the integrity of the piece...

Ancient Egyptian Bead - Blue Glazed Measurement: .9 cm in diameter

Material: glazed steatite

Technique: drilled, carved, glazed; pierced for suspension

Condition: glaze has worn off, leaving only traces of blue pigment between the petals.

Date: New Kingdom

Provenance: Golden Chariot; original collection of Gustav Jecquier, reportedly from Sakkara.

Identification and Interpretation: Circular flower-shaped bead with spiral pattern on the back...

Here you find an extremely rare wood amulet in the form of a Naos. Top cornice has a row of uraei cobras above the portal and the three other sides show the god Khonsu; the ancient Egyptian moon-god, here depicted as a falcon wearing the moon-disk on his head.

Most published amulets of this rare type are made of faience and not wood, as this type. This amulet dates to the 3rd Intermediate Period, 21th-22th Dynasty , circa 1085-713 B.C. and measures 1 inch in height...

Ancient Egyptian stone vessel with relief of the goddess Hathor. Eroded chip on one side, with a hairline. Dates to the New Kingdom period, Nubian; many of the collectors pieces were from this region. Has a Cartouche on the back however the hieroglyphs don’t translate.The inscription is most certainly a forgery, scratched into the surface in modern times by someone who did not really understand the language. The glyphs do not mean anything as written...

Large seated dwarf-pataikos with exaggerated phallus. He is naked, with both hands supporting his enlarged penis which is draped around his shoulders. Small piece at the bottom was chipped and reattached. Most of the aquamarine glaze is intact. Condition as shown. Measure 2 inches in height. Dates to the Ptolemaic Period , circa 4th century BC.

Provenance: The estate of Bill Jamieson.

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS

LATE PERIOD 664-30 B.C.

Seated Isis and Horus, the goddess clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, a striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress crowned with a cobra-modius supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, his head cradled by her left hand, wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus and the side lock of youth, tenons below the integral plinth for insertion...

Nice ancient Egyptian bronze Cobra with solar disc headdress Dates to circa the Late Period. Nice details, in good condition and displays well. Measures 1.9 inches in height.

Provenance: Gustave Jequier (1868-1946)

Ex. Billy Jamieson (1954-2011)

Here you find a fine terracotta of the child horus wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Measure 4 inches and is intact as shown. Very vivid facial expression.

Provenance: Gustave Jequier (1868-1946)

Ex. Billy Jamieson (1954-2011)

Authenticated by Gayle Gibson, "Egyptologist", Royal Ontario Museum.

Rare and beautiful multicolour ancient glass Djed pillar. This symbol of Osiris god of the underworld was a potent symbol of regeneration and was made to accompany the dead on to its journey. What the form represents is unknown to this day. It could represent a leafless tree, a pole a spine. Eventually the common belief was that it represented the backbone or spine of the god Osiris.Dates to the Roman Period. Top part re-glued. Measures 1 .7 inches in height...