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A Large Egyptian Banded Alabaster Jar, Early Dynastic Period, 1st Dynasty, circa 3000-2750 B.C.

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A Large Egyptian Banded Alabaster Jar, Early Dynastic Period, 1st Dynasty, circa 3000 - 2750 B.C.


of slightly flaring cylindrical form, with everted rounded rim.


alabaster

height 11½ in.

29.3 cm

Colonel Windebourne-Smythe Collection, Lincolnshire (formed before 1960);

With Mele Ancient Art, Westport, Connecticut;

W. Arnold Meijer Collection, the Netherlands, acquired from the above, December 2007;

Bonhams, London, July 4th, 2024, lot 266, illus.;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Mannheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum, SteinHart. Altägyptische Gefäße von ewiger Schönheit, Museum Weltkulturen, November 11th, 2018 - February 10th, 2019.

W. Arnold Meijer, Masters of Stone. Egyptian Stone Vessels from Predynastic Times to the Middle Kingdom, Amsterdam, 2018, no. 47a, pp. 54, 55, 88.

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