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Lot 110*

A Phoenician red jasper scarab

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Phoenician red jasper scarab
Circa 6th Century B.C.
The underside engraved with Osiris standing on a papyrus barge, wearing an atef-crown flanked on each side by an ostrich plume and holding two flails, flanked by two falcon-headed gods, each wearing kilts and solar discs with frontal uraei, holding staffs and an ankh, the water beneath the boat represented by cross-hatching, the scene enclosed within a line border, the details of the beetle summarily carved, pierced horizontally, mounted on a modern swivel ring, 2.1cm long

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Provenance:
Private collection, England, 1990.
UK art market.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 6 December 2007, lot 371.
Private collection, Hong Kong.

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