Egypt
- Sotheby's December 2007 Antiquities Auction Results
Sotheby's The Auction Results page can be reached at the above URL. Navigate in the list to the auction "Antiquities", December 5th 2007. You will need to be registered to access the Results page (free of charge). You will then be able to see each...
- Sarcophagus To Go On Sale At Christie's
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=17925"The leading lot in Christie’s sale of Antiquities, to take place on December 7, is an Egyptian painted wood sarcophagus and mummy for Neskhons, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty...
- More On The Outcome Of The Christie's Auction
http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6This brief article on the Daily Star website provides a little more information on the limestone statue purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, but also this coverage of the purchase of the statue of Nefertari: "Separately, Christie's...
- Auctions At Christies, New York
http://english.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20051208/102312.shtmlSome ancient Egyptian items are to go under the hammer today from the Harer Family Trust Collection: "An Egyptian black granite standard bearing the statue of Queen Nefertari is the centerpiece...
- Amarna Princess Head For Sale
http://www.gazinauctions.com/princess/ "A rare Mansoor portrait sculpture of an 18th dynasty Amarna Princess [ca 1363-1364 B.C.] goes live on eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace. . . . This princess head is in nearly perfect condition, the...
Egypt
More on auction purchases
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0118/p18s02-hfgn.html
I don't know why these have been featured so late in the day, but this article looks at December's auction purchases of Old Kingdom items. I include it in case anyone missed the items the first time round: "The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, set a world record when it bought this ancient Egyptian limestone sculpture at auction Dec. 9. Extraordinarily, earlier in the same sale, another statue, a granite figure, also set a record for an Egyptian antiquity, when it sold for $2,256,000. But the granite figure didn't hold that record for long. It was spectacularly overtaken by this Group Statue of Ka-nefer and His Family, which sold for $2,816,000. According to inscriptions, this tomb sculpture represents the Overseer of Craftsmen, Priest of Ptah, His wife, the Royal Confidant, Tjen-tety, and His son, the Overseer of Craftsmen, Khuwy-ptah. Characteristically,the wife and son are shown smaller. Relative size indicates importance. These two smaller figures affectionately embrace the larger one's legs."
See the above web page for more. There's a nice photo of the Ka-nefer statue on the page.
- Sotheby's December 2007 Antiquities Auction Results
Sotheby's The Auction Results page can be reached at the above URL. Navigate in the list to the auction "Antiquities", December 5th 2007. You will need to be registered to access the Results page (free of charge). You will then be able to see each...
- Sarcophagus To Go On Sale At Christie's
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=17925"The leading lot in Christie’s sale of Antiquities, to take place on December 7, is an Egyptian painted wood sarcophagus and mummy for Neskhons, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty...
- More On The Outcome Of The Christie's Auction
http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6This brief article on the Daily Star website provides a little more information on the limestone statue purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, but also this coverage of the purchase of the statue of Nefertari: "Separately, Christie's...
- Auctions At Christies, New York
http://english.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20051208/102312.shtmlSome ancient Egyptian items are to go under the hammer today from the Harer Family Trust Collection: "An Egyptian black granite standard bearing the statue of Queen Nefertari is the centerpiece...
- Amarna Princess Head For Sale
http://www.gazinauctions.com/princess/ "A rare Mansoor portrait sculpture of an 18th dynasty Amarna Princess [ca 1363-1364 B.C.] goes live on eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace. . . . This princess head is in nearly perfect condition, the...