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Lot 126

An Egyptian basalt footed jar

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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An Egyptian basalt footed jar
Predynastic Period, Naqada I-II, circa 4000-3250 B.C.
The ovoid body with small everted rim, a pair of pierced lug handles at the shoulders, tapering to a flared foot, 8.2cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Dr Christoph F. Leon, Basel, March 1998.

For a footed jar of similar form and profile cf. A. El-Khouli, Egyptian Stone Vessels, Predynastic Period to Dynasty III, vol. III, Mainz, 1978, pls 52-53.

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