An Egyptian Faience Duck Scaraboid

New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 B.C.

Length 5/8 inches (1.6 cm).

Property from a Florida Private Collection

This lot is located in Chicago.

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.

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An Egyptian Faience Duck Scaraboid

New Kingdom, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 B.C.

Length 5/8 inches (1.6 cm).

Property from a Florida Private Collection

This lot is located in Chicago.

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.

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