Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/526
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    497/748 (page 235)
    1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 235 Ninth Day Three large Vases, in unglazed earthenware, one with cylindrica] neck, from Professor Garstang’s Excavations at Esna, about 144 in. high; another, with ovoid body, about 21lin. high; the third, about 17in. high; also'a terra-cotta Stand for a vase, 15 in. high, from Professor Garstang’s Excavations at Abydos in 1906 4 A tall Amphora or Wine Vessel, in unglazed earthenware, 35 in. high; another, with body in the form of an inverted cone, 28 7n. high, one handle missing; and a heavy Vase, with elongated pear-shaped body tapering much towards the base; on one side a design of lotus flowers and an inscription very roughly done, 27 in. high 3 neck ; 307n. high A small Box of Portions of Tiles, originally lining a chamber in the Step Pyramid at Sakkara, taken to Berlin by Lepsius and pre- sented to Mr. MacGregor by the Berlin Museum, engraved in Maspevro’s *’ Egyptian Art and Archaeology” ; also a quantity of Fragments in Silver, Pottery, Wood, Stone and Earthenware, the objects include a large bronze Bucket a lot Omitted from Second Day’s Sale. A set of four Model Wine Jars, mounted on four-legged table-plinth with a central bowl, 44 in. high; the four vases originally had conical lids, but two of these are now missing ; a beautiful little model in stone or faience of very hard paste, which has taken a straw colour with age Two false-necked Vases, in blue glazed faience, 3 7n. high, decorated with bands of cross-hatched lines in black, the specimen in brightest blue with one handle missing, 22nd Dynasty, found at Tuneh, the other 18th Dynasty ; also a small pear-shaped Vase, from Keneh, 2 in. high, 18th Dynasty, decorated in black with lotus petals; a blue glazed hemispherical Bowl, 3 in. high by 42in. diam.; and a pear-shaped Vase with flat bottom, in pale green faience, 5 2n. high; the vase originally had two strap-shaped handles, of which only one remains, the lip is flat and sessile with the body of the vase 5 END OF SALE.