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A Private New York Collection of Egyptian Art (Lots 1-13)
Lot 8*

An Egyptian basalt amuletic pendant

The Classics Online: Antiquities, Clocks, European Ceramics
22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian basalt amuletic pendant

Predynastic Period, circa 3000 B.C.
6.5cm high

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Provenance:
Robert de Rustafjaell (1859-1943) collection, acquired prior to 1909.
The Heckscher Museum of Art, Long Island, New York (museum acc. no. 59.307 on the pendant), 1913-2012.
with Sands of Time, Washington DC.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above 5 December 2013.

For the type, likely a forehead pendant, see W.M. Flinders Petrie, Amulets, London, 1914, pl. XVI, 130 n-q.

Rustafjaell is an alias of Robert Fawcus-Smith, a British art collector and author who worked in Egypt as a geologist and mining engineer. While in Egypt, he formed a significant and important collection of antiquities, with a focus on Predynastic artworks and flints. After World War I, Rustafjaell moved to the United States, where he lived under the name Col. Prince Roman Orbeliani. Sotheby's auctioned part of his collection between 1906 and 1913. The Heckscher Museum of Art acquired several works from these sales. Objects from the Rustafjaell collection are now in the British Museum.

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