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The Lloyd and Jeanne Raport Collection (Lots 111-143)
Lot 141*

An Egyptian green-glazed faience New Year flask

4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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An Egyptian green-glazed faience New Year flask

Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C
17cm high, collection number E24 in red ink on the underside.

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Provenance:
Lloyd and Jeanne Raport Collection, Washington DC and Florida, formed between 1972 – 2000.

Such flasks were given as gifts at the New Year, apparently filled with Nile water. The Egyptian New Year occurred at the inundation of the Nile, on which the crops for the forthcoming year were reliant. There is a similar flask with lotus column or papyrus neck and broad collar decoration in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, obj. no. 15.119.5.

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