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live November 18 | 02:30 PM
Hôtel des ventes de Monte-Carlo

37 - BAGUE PIVOTANTE EN OR SERTIE D'UN SCARABÉE EN STÉATITE GLAÇURÉE

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Estimation

€1,000 - 1,500

Sale fees

30%

BAGUE PIVOTANTE EN OR SERTIE D'UN SCARABÉE EN STÉATITE GLAÇURÉE Or, stéatite glaçurée L. scarabée 1,8 cm — Poids total 5,88 g Égypte, Deuxième Période Intermédiaire – Nouvel Empire, c. XVIIe – XIe siècle av. J.-C. Bague pivotante à anneau tubulaire en feuille d'or, les extrémités ornées de perles sphériques et de fil d'or enroulé, l'axe traversant le scarabée. Scarabée au dos détaillé, le pronotum et les élytres délimités par des incisions, le plat serti dans une bâte en or. Plat gravé en creux d'un pharaon sur son char tiré par un cheval. Pour des parallèles, comparer avec deux scarabées au roi sur son char du Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 66.980 et 66.986), et trois bagues à scarabée du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 10.130.957, 30.8.416 et 15.171, cette dernière inscrite au nom d'Aouserrê Apophis). A gold swivel ring set with a glazed steatite scarab Swivel ring with a tubular hoop of sheet gold, the terminals decorated with spherical beads and coiled gold wire, the pin passing through the scarab. The scarab with detailed back, the pronotum and elytra delineated by incised lines, the base set in a gold collet. The base engraved in intaglio with a pharaoh in his chariot drawn by a horse. For parallels, compare two scarabs with a king in a chariot in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acc. Nos. 66.980 and 66.986), and three scarab finger rings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. Nos. 10.130.957, 30.8.416 and 15.171, the last inscribed for Auserre Apophis).

Auction details

Archéologie online
Wednesday, November 18
02:30 PM
10-12, quai Antoine 1er
98000 Monte-Carlo, Monaco

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Hôtel des ventes de Monte-Carlo +37 7 93 25 88 89 amournet@hvmc.com
On Drouot for 5 years avec More than 46,000 lots published

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