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Egyptian Blue Faience Funerary Dish for Modelled Food Egyptian Blue Faience Funerary Dish for Modelled Food Egyptian Blue Faience Funerary Dish for Modelled Food
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LOT 0506

Egyptian Blue Faience Funerary Dish for Modelled Food

MIDDLE KINGDOM, 12TH DYNASTY, 1991–1802 B.C.

4 3/8 in. (252 grams, 11.1 cm).

Shaped as a shallow circular dish.

Provenance

Acquired on the German art market, 1989-1995.
with The Museum Gallery, 19 Bury Place, London, WC1, UK, 1998-2003.
Property of a London based academic, 2003-present.

Literature

Cf. Friedman, F.D., Borromeo, G., Leveque, M. (eds.), Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, London, 1998, p.151 and p.239, for a similar dish in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. E14188).

Footnotes

Faience food and dish simulacra replaced the wooden food preparation models of the earlier Middle Kingdom.

CONDITION
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LOT 0506

Egyptian Blue Faience Funerary Dish for Modelled Food

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170

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