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Lot 324*

A tall Egyptian alabaster beaker

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

£12,000 - £15,000

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A tall Egyptian alabaster beaker
Old Kingdom, 5th-6th Dynasty, circa 2500-2200 B.C.
21.5cm high, 13.1cm diam.

Footnotes

Provenance :
Dr. Th.G. Appelboom collection, Netherlands, before 1964.
with Archea Ancient Art, Amsterdam.
Arnold Meijer collection, the Netherlands, acquired from the above June 2003.

Published:
C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk, Objects for Eternity, Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 32, no. 1.18.
W. Arnold Meijer, Masters of Stone, Egyptian Stone Vessels from Predynastic Times to the Middle Kingdom, Amsterdam, 2018, p.58, no. 50a.

Exhibited:
Allard Pierson Museum, Archaeological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, Objecten voor de Eeuwigheid, 17 November 2006-25 March 2007.
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim, Stein(h)art, Altägyptische Gefäße von ewiger Schönheit, Museum Weltkulturen, 11 November 2018-10 February 2019.

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