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Lot 206*

An Egyptian alabaster jar
and an Egyptian alabaster vessel,
2

24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,500 - £1,800

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An Egyptian alabaster jar
Early Dynastic Period, circa 3100-2573 B.C.
Composed of three parts, the rounded rim, flaring shoulder, and body tapering to a flat base, 4in (10cm) high, and an Egyptian alabaster vessel, of elongated form, with flared neck and slender tapering body, Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C, 7in (17.5cm) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Cyrus Collection. Property of Fay Safani, New York.
Inherited from Edward Safani, acquired in the 1950s-1960s.

Literature:
For a similar two part alabaster jar of 2nd Dynasty cf. W. Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1984, no. 134, p.247 and 249.

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