An Egyptian Faience Duck Scaraboid
Sale 1099 - Ancient Art & Natural History: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Nov 10, 2022
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$1,875
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Lot Description
An Egyptian Faience Duck Scaraboid
New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 B.C.
Length 5/8 inches (1.6 cm).
This lot is located in Chicago.
Property from a Florida Private Collection
Provenance:
Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), Cairo, Egypt.
Bruce McAlpine, London (Inv. no. E.541).
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 10 July 1984.
For a comparative example of a faience seal in duck form dating from the reign of Amenhotep III, see P.E. Newberry, Scarabs: an Introduction to the Study of Egyptian Seals and Signet Rings, London, 1908, pp. 87-88, figs. 91-92. For a scaraboid (albeit baboon) with a similar underside from the reign of Tuthmosis III, see A. Kozloff, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland, 1981, pg. 67, fig. 54.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 10 July 1984.
For a comparative example of a faience seal in duck form dating from the reign of Amenhotep III, see P.E. Newberry, Scarabs: an Introduction to the Study of Egyptian Seals and Signet Rings, London, 1908, pp. 87-88, figs. 91-92. For a scaraboid (albeit baboon) with a similar underside from the reign of Tuthmosis III, see A. Kozloff, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland, 1981, pg. 67, fig. 54.
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