Two Egyptian necklaces
New Kingdom - Late Period, 1550-332 B.C.
One necklace with a central pendant in the form of a bright blue glazed composition Ptaichos amulet, depicted biting snakes with unintelligible text on the back column and an udjat eye impressed on the base, interspersed with glass amulets of stylised Bes figures and disc beads in blue and cream, restrung, 16½in (42cm); and a necklace composed of three strands of disc and tubular beads in turquoise, blue and cream, the central section with mid blue conjoint tubular beads and thirteen flat-backed daisy pendants, 18th-19th Dynasty, restrung, 13¾in (35cm) long (2)
New Kingdom - Late Period, 1550-332 B.C.
One necklace with a central pendant in the form of a bright blue glazed composition Ptaichos amulet, depicted biting snakes with unintelligible text on the back column and an udjat eye impressed on the base, interspersed with glass amulets of stylised Bes figures and disc beads in blue and cream, restrung, 16½in (42cm); and a necklace composed of three strands of disc and tubular beads in turquoise, blue and cream, the central section with mid blue conjoint tubular beads and thirteen flat-backed daisy pendants, 18th-19th Dynasty, restrung, 13¾in (35cm) long (2)
Sold for
£1,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- <I>Provenance</I>:
Acquired on the London art market in the 1980s.
Category: Antiquities
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