About the lot N° 24
Title : Thirty-Seven Egyptian Glass Amuletic Inlays
Provenance : Omar Pacha Sultan.with Phoenix Ancient Art, Geneva, 1976.Literature : Collection de feu Omar Pacha Sultan Le Caire, Paris, 1929, no. 632.G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 131, pp. 181 and 183.R.H. Wilkinson, Symbols and Magic in Egyptian Art, New York, 1994, no. 74, pp. 116-117.J. Hardin, Exhibition catalogue, The Lure of Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs Revisited, St. Petersburg, 1996, no. 91.D.C. Forbes, Harer Collection of Egyptian Antiquities on View at California's Newest Museum, in KMT, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring 1997, p. 27.F.D. Friedman, ed., Exhibition catalogue, Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, New York, 1998, no. 156, pp. 241-246.Notes : These amulets have often been identified as faience. However, microscopic examination reveals that they are, in fact, glass. For related examples, correctly identified as glass, see nos. 335-438, pp. 157ff. in Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass.According to Thompson and Friedman (in Friedman, op. cit., p. 156), these particular inlays were probably intended for a wooden coffin which would thus have been covered with multicolored, dazzling images of protective faience deities, many of whom would also have appeared wrapped in the mummy bandages.Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : Ancient Egyptian Art from the Harer Family Trust Collection
Sale date : 09 Dec 2005
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