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Lot 128*

An Egyptian andesite porphyry bowl

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

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An Egyptian andesite porphyry bowl
Early Dynastic Period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, circa 3000-2650 B.C.
The tapering body with a flat base, the sloping rim offset from the rounded shoulders by a horizontal groove, 4.9cm high, 7.3cm wide

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dr. Rudolf Schmidt (1900-1970), Solothurn, acquired 22 June 1951 (personal inventory record); and thence by descent.

Published:
P. Günther & R. Wellauer, Ägyptische Steingefässe der Sammlung Rudolf Schmidt, Solothurn, Ägyptische Hefte des Orientalischen Seminars der Universtität Zürich, Zurich, 1988, no. 34.

For a very similar bowl see A. Wiese & D. Blome, Ägyptische Kunstwerke aus der Sammlung Hans und Sonja Humbel, Basel, 2014, p. 20, no. 3.

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