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LOT 0401

Sold for (Inc. bp): £494

EGYPTIAN DECORATED WOODEN VESSEL WITH STOPPER
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
2 7/8 in. (11 grams, 74 mm).

Spheroid wooden flask and stopper; the outer face with incised alternating bands of radiating triangles and hatching, the equator with frieze of perching birds and a hatched sunburst to the underside; turned hollow wooden stopper with carinated profile and flanges.

PROVENANCE:
Ex family collection since the 1950s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Nolte, B., Die Glasgefäße in alten Ägypten, Berlin, 1968, item 26, for type.

FOOTNOTES:
The vessel is a version in lathe-turned wood of a type known to have been produced in glass.

CONDITION
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