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20 Marble as fabric This female figure, probably made in Cyprus, demonstrates the mastery of its creator in the naturalistic rendering of the softly draped chiton and himation fabrics in stone. A fragment of a sculpture of a draped female figure. Probably Cyprus, 2 nd –1 st century B.C. Sold for CHF 225 000 Egypt’s cult of the dead Only slightly more than 1000 wooden panels with expressive portraits of the deceased have been found in Egypt to date. They bear witness to a distinct cult of the dead, which recorded the departed for eternity. In contrast to the abstracted and idealised ancient Egyptian death masks, these mummy portraits are naturalistic and individual. This work was discovered byWilliamMatthew Flinders Petrie in 1888 in Hawara near the lower reaches of the Nile. An Egyptian ‘Fayum’ mummy portrait of a woman. Hawara, Egypt. Trajan period, early 2 nd century CE. Polychrome painted wooden panel. 38 × 23.5 cm. Sold for CHF 450 000 Homo ludens This game box decorated with filigree inlays was made from vari ous local hardwoods in the 17 th century, probably in the workshop of Sam uel Eck in the Holy Roman Imperial free city of Eger. A fine and rare game box for chess and backgammon with relief marquetry. Sold for CHF 37 000 Natural history in colour Mark Catesby was the first illustrator to use full-page colour plates in a book on natural history. This copy of the Nuremberg edition from 1750 which sold in our September auction contains one hundred hand-coloured cop- per engravings. Mark Catesby. Piscium, serpentum, insectorum aliorumque nonnullorum animalium nec non plantarum quartundam imagines. Nuremberg, J. J. Fleischmann, 1750. Sold for CHF 47 000 Review of our September Auctions