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Lot 326*

An Egyptian limestone squat bag-shaped jar

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

£800 - £1,200

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An Egyptian limestone squat bag-shaped jar
Middle Kingdom, 11th-12th Dynasty, circa 2050-1800 B.C.
4.6cm high, 8.7cm wide

Footnotes

Provenance:
Mr and Mrs Horace Karpf collection, New York, acquired prior to October 1980.
with Mark Goodstein, Staten Island.
Arnold Meijer collection, the Netherlands, acquired from the above February 2009.

Published:
W. Arnold Meijer, Masters of Stone, Egyptian Stone Vessels from Predynastic Times to the Middle Kingdom, Amsterdam, 2018, p. 65, no. 59.

Exhibited:
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim, Stein(h)art, Altägyptische Gefäße von ewiger Schönheit, Museum Weltkulturen, 11 November 2018-10 February 2019.

Cf. another Middle Kingdom jar of similar form, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, inv. no. UC31518.

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