13 Apr 2011
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
Antiquities including Property from the Collection of Sir Daniel Donohue
Back to auction 18817
Antiquities including Property from the Collection of Sir Daniel Donohue
Back to auction 18817
An Egyptian turquoise glass vulture-head amulet
New Kingdom, circa 1550-1070 B.C.
With hooked black beak, one of the eyes with white inlay, the yellow pupil with traces of gilding, surmounted by a pierced suspension loop, the curved neck with incised horizontal ridges, hieroglyphs inscribed down the flattened back with 'The Osiris the Overseer of the Granary, Kheruef', 43mm high
New Kingdom, circa 1550-1070 B.C.
With hooked black beak, one of the eyes with white inlay, the yellow pupil with traces of gilding, surmounted by a pierced suspension loop, the curved neck with incised horizontal ridges, hieroglyphs inscribed down the flattened back with 'The Osiris the Overseer of the Granary, Kheruef', 43mm high
Sold for
£28,800
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Sir Philip Brocklehurst Collection (1887-1975), of Swythamley Hall, near Wincle, Staffordshire, who sailed with the explorer Shackleton on one of his expeditions to the Antarctic from 1907-9.
Literature:
For a vulture glass inlay made of three separate pieces of the head, eye and beak cf. S. Matheson, Ancient glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale, 1980, p.4, fig. 5.
Category: Antiquities
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