Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17 Sep 2025
A collection of Egyptian amulets
A collection of Egyptian amulets
New Kingdom - Late Period, circa 1500 - 300 BC
faience and hardstones, including six Udjat eyes, a circular bead with multiple eyes, three bunches of grapes, a fruit, three falcons, three serpents, four Bes figures, three hearts, a djed pillar, two poppy seeds, a two handled vase, a crown, two frogs, a jackal, a scarab, an ox head, a fish, a hawk, Harpocrates, a papyrus on a plaque, a conical bead, a crowned head, two with ribbed sides, one with a patera base and an animal head,
the largest eye, 5cm long,
and two small composite Shabtis, an pottery Udjat eye mould fragment, two hardstone beads and a Mesopotamia steatite cylinder seal fragment, carved a soldier, 2.3cm long. (50)
Provenance
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.
Condition Reports
To request a condition report please email wh@woolleyandwallis.co.uk.