ANCIENT OBJECTS OF RI An Important Sale of Egyptian &
South Asian Antiquities
October 15, 2017 at noon
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Featuring the late John J. Slocum, Newport, RI collection of Egyptian
and Classical art, as well as Indian stone sculpture from a
Boston area collection, in storage since 1992. Approximately 400 lots,
the vast majority to be sold at no reserve.

Mr. Slocum (1914-1997) collected most of his antiquities while serving as US cultural attache to Egypt in the 1960s. Later, he served as Assistant to Director of The Smithsonian, and was appointed by President Reagan to the Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee, and was a Trustee Emeritus of the Archaeological Institute of America. He was a well respected scholar/collector, whose medieval crusader coins were sold in a single-owner sale at Sotheby’s, London in 1997.
Superb Egyptian Mummy Head, collected in 1875
Large, Fine Egyptian Bronze Cat
Roman Marble Head
Fine Egyptian Amulets
Hindu and Buddhist Works of Art
Selection of Egyptian Bronzes
Islamic Glass & Works of Art
Important, Very Large Egyptian Alabaster Jar (12.5” high)
Large New Kingdom Limestone Relief
Collection of Ancient Gaming Pieces, Dice, Large Stone Icosahedron
Important, Hallstatt Bronze Bracelet, ex Jos. Brummer Sale, Parke-Bernet, 1949
Tribal, Asian, Pre-Columbian, etc.
Massive 18th C. Indian Bronze Linga
(18” high)
Part of Large Group Faience & Glass Amulets
40+ Ancient Glass Vessels, including rare types
Good Fossils & Natural History Specimens
Fine Group of Luristan Bronzes
Part of Large Assortment Egyptian Glass Inlays & Rods
Fine Group of Medieval Indian Sculpture,
(largest 33” high)
Part of Collection of Ancient Stone, Bronze, & Glass Weights (some unusually large)
Rare Egyptian Mosaic Glass Floral & Fish Fragments
Assortment of Asian Antiques
Large Egyptian Wood Falcon
D. Howard Hitchcock Painting of First Hawaiian Home, 1895
Important Raoul Dufy Ceramic ‘Jardin de salon’, c. 1927
Jean Charlot Cuernavaca Street Scene, 1925
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