Byzantine perfume flasks

Eastern Mediterranean, 9 - 12th cent. AD showing Islamic influence

4 inches high/10 cms

Consisting of two glass perfume flasks w/ aplicator. One flask has its original seal and contains perfume.

All are contained in a textile pouch which also shows Islamic influence

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Ptolemaic Figure of Horus

Ptolemaic Statue of Horus

granite

18 x 13 8.5 inches

William Tilden Blodgett, 1823 - 1875, acquired whilst living in Europe and traveling to Egypt where he also spent time acquiring art for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  He was a founding member and the first Chairman of the Museum.

The Horus Falcon passed down through the Blodgett family to the great grandson, Stephen Whitney Blodgett, Jr  

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Islamic tile

Damascus, Syria

16th century.

A pair of square stone paste tiles painted in cobalt blue, manganese purple, turquoise and apple green. Outlined in black, the design shows part of a vase in apple green on the left of the composition decorated in a profusion of blue and white arabesques and split palmettes with a turquoise band around the rim and base. Reserved in white and green against a deep blue background, a split palmette, a carnation and small rosettes float between long flower stems and water reeds.
16th century.

21 x 10.5 in. {53.4 x 26.6 cm.}

Ex: collection Lockwood de Forest {1850-1932}

Islamic

A stone paste square border tile painted in underglaze cobalt blue, apple green and turquoise. The border on the right side, a vigorous cintamani design in white and turquoise, outlined in black, is reserved against a cobalt blue ground. A thin turquoise guard stripe on the extreme right vertical edge. The remaining area, which is also reserved against a cobalt blue ground, shows a tulip, foliage and an apple green cusped medallion containing a tulip head in a spray of flowers rising from a floral palmette. Remains of an ogival lattice in turquoise with a white serrated edge and containing plum blossoms emanates from the top and bottom of the cusped medallion.
16th century.

10.5 x 10.5 in. {26.5x 26.5 cm.}

c.f. Ettinghausen, R. Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum, 1972. One of the group of Damascus tiles with the use of apple green mentioned on p.104 when referring to the Lockwood de Forest collection.

Ex. collection Lockwood de Forest {1850-1932}

Flemish alabaster Scupture of Mary and Baby Jesus

High relief of Mary and the Christ Child

alabaster

Northern Europe, possibly Germany

17th century

7.25 x 6.75 inches

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Egypt amulet

Opening of the mouth amulet

breccia

3 ins

Pre Dynastic Egypt

Persian Lamp Stand

Safavid,  circa late 16th century

brass, cast, engraved and inlaid with silver and black compound

13.5 inches high

Inscription reads:

                                 The lamp of the Lucid I see brightened by your face

                                 All those who have a soul I see their souls turned towards you

                                 You are desired by the world, may not one hair fall from your head  

 - Ahli Torshizi, Timurid poet

c.f. Metropolitan Museum, NY., 91.1.579

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Goddess Mut

Egypt, 22nd Dynasty

bronze with traces of inlay

5 1/4 inches high

Purchased from David Noorian, November 1928

by descent

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Eskimo

Pre-contact Eskimo drum handle engraved and inlaid with baleen and walrus ivory circlets

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Malagasy textile

Brocade woven silk lamba akotofahana

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