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)

Two uraei, in frontal view and joined together at the height of their bodies and at the solar disk. Statuette amulet showing nice details of the serpents'. On the front we find six alveoli, and solar disks which were meant to be filled with faience or glass paste, some of which is still present. Has what appears to be a suspension loop on the back. Dates to the Late period and measures 1.5" inches in height. Great condition!

Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946).

Ex...

Ancient Bronze amulet representing the Apis bull, standing in a walking position. On his head are the horns, the solar disc and the uraeus, and there is a suspension loop on the back. Has a nice patina and dates to the Late Period. Measures 1"inch in height. Very nice piece!

While it was alive the Apis bull was regarded as the Ba of Ptah and its sanctuary was near the temple of Ptah in Mennefer...

Syro-Palestinian bronze goddess wrapped in a snake. Standing with her arms around here waist and one holding on to the snake. Figure standing straight with breasts showing and wearing a conical crown. Has a nice patina and 100% intact. Measures 3.5 inches in height.

Provenance: Gustave Jequier (1868-1946)

Late 2nd Millennium BC

For similar figures see the "Syro-Palestinian" Group, Negbi, Canaanite Gods in Metal.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SEATED BRONZE OSIRIS FIGURE

LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C...

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE SISTRUM

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.

The arch with four perforations on each side for attachment of the cross bars, surmounted by a recumbent Bastet in the form of a feline, her litter of two kittens before her, flanking a falcon, the handle with back to back busts of Hathor, the patron of music, wearing her characteristic wig, two uraei on either side of her head, a rectangular cobra modius above her hear where the arch joins the handle...

This appears to be an egyptian bronze crown fragment with one large uraeus cobra and one cow horn remaining. There seem to be 10 smaller uraei surrounding the main mount. Measures 4.25 inches in height and dates to the Late Period. May be from a large figure or actual crown.

Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946)

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DOUBLE-FEATHER CROWN

LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 BC

Small bronze of a double feathers crown from ancient egypt. In good condition and intact. Measures 2.5 inches in height.

Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946)

Galleria Delvecchio .… “is pleased to present a collection of Egyptian antiquities assembled by the celebrated Swiss Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier. Jéquier was born in 1868 in Neuchatel...

FRAGMENT OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PECTORAL

CIRCA LATE PERIOD

Here you find a section of a pectoral with eight Uraei or Uraeuses. These stylized upright cobras are lined up in a horizontal postion. Good patina and in great condition. Measures 5.5 inches.

Provenance: Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946)

Galleria Delvecchio .… “is pleased to present a collection of Egyptian antiquities assembled by the celebrated Swiss Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier...

Here you find an a bronze feather element from a royal headdress, flanked with two Uraeus serpents wearing a sun disc. Constitutes the right side of a royal Hem-em-het or Atef crown for a statue. This section of the crown integrates the feather of justice, the horn of the ram (a traditional breed of ram with long wavy horns which disappeared after the middle kingdom), and the cobra-uraeus ‘defender of Egypt’ with a solar disk. The solar disks show traces of inlay work...

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE

LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.

A seated Harpokrates, depicted nude, wearing a striated names-headcloth surmounted by ram horns and fronted by a uraeus, his right hand raised to his mouth, his fee atop an integral plinth. Measures 4.9 inches with stand...