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LONDON – The sale of Fine Ancient Art & Antiquities at Apollo Art Auctions on Sunday, January 28 is headed by the Prince collection – a private assemblage of more than 150 pieces of Neolithic, Egyptian, Hittite, Greco-Roman, and Near Eastern art. Formed from the 1990s through 2014, most pieces were acquired through leading European dealers. It will be followed on Monday, January 29 by a Chinese and Islamic Art auction. The catalogs for both are now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.
A pleasing selection of Egyptian faience fragments and inlays includes two large foundation tiles believed to have come from the Pi-Ramesses palace in Qantir. Each is decorated in black with an inscribed cartouche, one carrying the prenomen and the other the nomen of Ramesses the Great. Similar to an example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the tiles were part of a Belgian private collection prior to joining the Prince collection. The starting bid is £8,000 ($10,190).
Several shards on offer were those collected by the Victorian Egyptologist Rev. William MacGregor (1848–1937). His collection, which formed part of an exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1895, was later dispersed, with these pieces sold through the Parisian works of art dealer Joseph Altounian (1890-1954). An opening bid of £1,000 ($1,270) is invited for a New Kingdom 18th Dynasty green and yellow inlay in the form of a lotus flower.
Also featured are two 19th Dynasty rosette inlays once owned by Daniel Marie Fouquet (1850-1921), a French doctor who lived in Cairo and whose collection of antiquities was dispersed at the Drouot in Paris in 1922. The lot is estimated at £6,000-£9,000 ($7,610-$11,410).
From another source is a Roman marble head of Harpocrates – the Hellenistic god of silence, secrets and confidentiality. This model, dated to around the 2nd century AD, depicts him with youthful and expressive features, including a subtle, enigmatic smile. It has an ownership history from before the 1960s and most recently appeared at auction in 2018 at Bonhams. Apollo has assigned a starting bid of £20,000 ($25,470).
One of the finest examples of ancient armor offered by Apollo director Dr. Ivan Bonchev since the firm was founded in 2010 is a Roman bronze Weisenau, or Imperial, helmet. The form — the final evolutionary stage of the legionary helmet — is distinctive for its mushroom-shape peak, a massive visor with a serrated edge, as well as its contoured neck guard and hinged cheek pieces. The helmet’s provenance includes successive European private collections, including the Charles Delaporte collection in the 1960s. It will open at £30,000 ($38,165).
More than 100 pieces of ancient jewelry are headed by a circa-3rd century BC Greek Hellenistic gold finger ring engraved with a portrait of Zeus, and a Ptolemaic gold finger ring set with a carnelian intaglio engraved with a crocodile. Given starting bids of £10,000 ($12,725) and £3,000 ($3,815) respectively, both were recently in a London private collection.
A fine selection of classical pottery includes a late 4th or 3rd century BC Attic red-figure bell krater with Dionysiac decoration attributed to the Telos Painter – it has a starting bid of £8,000 ($10,190) – while leading a group of Chinese terracotta figures is a model of a recumbent, braying Bactrian camel offered with a thermoluminescence test dating it to the Tang period (618-907 AD). Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1990s, it has a starting bid of £3,000 ($3,815).
As stated above, on Monday, January 29, Apollo will also hold a sale titled Fine Chinese & Islamic Art. Of particular note are several examples of Kangxi (1662-1722) blue and white porcelain, with bidding for a pair of square section vases decorated with scenes of ladies admiring flowers in jardineres opening at £5,000 ($6,350).
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Roman marble head of Harpocrates, circa 2nd century AD, with a starting bid of £20,000 ($25,470) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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Two large Egyptian New Kingdom faience foundation tiles carrying the prenomen and nomen of Ramesses II, with a starting bid of £8,000 ($10,190) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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Late 4th or 3rd century BC Attic red-figure bell krater, decorated on one side with a Dionysiac scene attributed to the Telos Painter, having a starting bid of £8,000 ($10,190) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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Monumental Greek Hellenistic gold finger ring with a portrait of Zeus, circa early 3rd century BC, with a starting bid of £10,000 ($12,725) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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Roman bronze Weisenau, or Imperial helmet, with a starting bid of £30,000 ($38,165) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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New Kingdom 18th Dynasty green and yellow inlay in the form of a lotus flower, from the Rev. William MacGregor (1848–1937) collection, with a starting bid of £1,000 ($1,280) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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Ptolemaic gold and carnelian finger ring dating to circa 300-100 BC and having an engraved image of a crocodile, with a starting bid of £3,000 ($3,815) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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Pair of Kangxi (1662-1722) period blue and white square vases with scenes of ladies appreciating flowers, with a starting bid of £5,000 ($6,350) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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Gandharan carved schist panel portraying the Parinirvana, or death of Buddha, dating to circa 200-300 AD and having a starting bid of £3,000 ($3,815) at Apollo Art Auctions.
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