245 EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM PALE TURQUOISE FAIENCE HIPPOPOTAMUS, details in black including lotus at rear. Very rare, especially in this small size. XIth-XIIth Dynasty, ca. 2040-1790 BC L. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) Ex French collection; J.M.E. collection, acquired in Paris, in April 2005. 246 EGYPTIAN SMALL TURQUOISE FAIENCE AMULET OF A SPOTTED CAT WITH TWO KITTENS seated between their mother’s forepaws. Late Period, 525-332 BC. H. 1 in. (2.5 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from C. Ede, London, in July 1988. Cf. G. A. Reisner, Cairo Museum, pl. XXII, no. 12625: similar in the MMA, accession number: 15.43.25
Egyp tia n Fa ience Varia 248 EGYPTIAN LARGE TURQUOISE FAIENCE APHRODITE ANADYOMENE, the nude goddess rising from the sea, depicted in contrapposto, her arms raised, holding her long cork-screw locks in her hands, her garment draped over a columnar support to her left, an additional back-pillar rising to her buttocks. Ca. 2nd Century AD. H. 5 3⁄4 in. (14.6 cm.) Ex Hakim Egyptian Art, New York, 1959; Texas private collection; J.M.E. collection, acquired at Christie’s, New York, June 2005. 249 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE BROAD OPENWORK FAIENCE FINGER RING with row of four seated deities and djed pillar. Ptolemaic Period, 305-30 BC. Diam. 1 in. (2.7 cm.) Ex Werner Mansfeld collection; Berlin collection acquired 1970s; J.M.E. collection, acquired in the Munich art market, April 2008. 250 EGYPTIAN FAIENCE RECTANGULAR UDJAT-EYE PLAQUE, polychrome, with remains of red-coloured pupil inlay; the back with procession of four protective goddesses including Isis, Nephthys and Mut, within a rope border. 3rd Intermediate Period, ca. 1069-712 BC. 2 1/4 in. x 2 in. (5.6 x 5 cm.) Ex English private collection, thence by descent; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Christies’, London, December 1981.
247 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE WINGED SCARAB in three sections with finely striated body and legs, and extended wings. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 3rd-1st Century BC. W. 5 in. (12.6 cm.) Ex old European collection.; ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Christie’s, London, September 2000.
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251 EGYPTIAN TURQUOISE FAIENCE ‘NUBIAN’ SPHINX with body of a cat and head of a man with an unusual ‘Nubian’ hair style. XXVth Dynasty, 712-656 BC. H. 1 5/8 in. (4 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired from Galerie Nefer, Zurich, in May 1996.
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