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Statuary, Egyptian

Many small fragments & statuettes.
The predominant glaze is blue, of many shades
but mostly deep. Many greens, but the next predominant color is a kind of [[?]] green. 

Some glaze over stone. 
Clay sometimes red, sometimes white 
early prehistoric unglazed pieces are creamy, reddish or [[??]] One
has sprays of flowers & grass [[forms?]] in dark chocolate - painted, not [[??]] earliest [[??]]
[[?? ??]].

One small figure of standing god in
pale greenish blue glaze, a little over one inch in height, perfectly modelled, into microscope lines in incision. A really beautiful human piece, much like the final modern large (1 ft hght) god in shrine. 

Mr F. assumes that the finest pieces are all Ramses the Third. [[Dal el bahn??]], as if this were best period.

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Alabaster portrait head of a princess, probably daughter of Ramses.
Mr. F. saw [[no?]] Egyptian white glaze.
Figures of animals somtimes done in low relief in [[??]] on [[??]]fer than good. [[??] ornament to a curved surface.