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LOT 0491
Egyptian Alabaster Vase
NEW KINGDOM, CIRCA 1550-1315 B.C. OR EARLIER
1 1/2 in. (52 grams, 39 mm).
Round in profile with flattened underside, squared rim (possibly incomplete); with old collector's manuscript note: 'Old Kingdom between 3000-1200 B.C.'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1960s-1980s.
Accompanied by an old handwritten identification slip.
Literature
Cf. Guidotti, M.C., Vasi dall’epoca protodinastica al Nuovo Regno, Museo Egizio di Firenze, Rome, 1991, pp.174-5 nos. 237-241, for alabaster and limestone vessels of similar body profile.
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