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Lot 315*

An Egyptian diorite jar

6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian diorite jar
Predynastic Period, Early Naqada I-III, circa 4000-3000 B.C.
9.5cm high, 9.2cm diam.

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above June 1974.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 April 2015, lot 157.
Arnold Meijer collection, the Netherlands, acquired from the above sale.

Published:
W. Arnold Meijer, Masters of Stone, Egyptian Stone Vessels from Predynastic Times to the Middle Kingdom, Amsterdam, 2018, p. 17, no. 4.

Exhibited:
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim, Stein[H]art. Altägyptische Gefäße von ewiger Schönheit, Museum Weltkulturen, 11 November 2018 – 10 February 2019.

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