Beschreibung:

EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION AND SHELL BEAD AND AMULET GROUP 26th Dynasty, circa 685-525 BC A mixed group of beads and pendants taken from the neck of a mummy in the tombs at Gurob, Egypt, comprising: a miniature cowrie shell; three Bes pendants (one repaired); a Kherty pendant; two papyrus stalk pendants; an Anubis plaque; two scarab beads; a Sekhmet bead with scarab detail to the reverse; a clenched hand pendant; a regardant duck bead; a ram pendant; three wedjat pendants; a sacrificial sow pendant; an Isis-and-Horus pendant; three wedge-shaped fly pendants; a quantity of tubular and discoid spacer beads; plus four Near Eastern cylinder seals (three Syrian, 2nd millennium BC, one white Mitannian culture,14th century BC); offered with 19th century handwritten collector's note. 51 grams, 2-33 mm (1 1/4"). Fine condition, some repaired. [26 pendants] Provenance From the Foxwell family collection; Mr H G and Miss E Foxwell purchased their collection from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, acquiring from the Forman collection (sold by Sotheby's in 1900), and the Mc Gregor Collection (sold by Sotheby's in 1922), and the Clements collection in 1923 and thence by descent.