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Lot 163

An Egyptian red limestone jar

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian red limestone jar
Predynastic Period, Naqada II, circa 3500-3200 B.C.
With everted disc rim and flat base, twin lug handles at the shoulder, 5.1cm high

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Provenance:
Pino Donati collection, Lugano-Breganzona, formed in the 1960's–early 1970's.
with Arte Classica, Stefano Donati, Lugano.
Private collection, Europe, acquired November 2011 from the above.

For two near-identical examples, see Petrie Museum, University College London, UC 15617 and UC15621, which Petrie himself excavated and published in Prehistoric Egypt in 1920 (pl. XXXVIII, nos. 59 and 63).

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