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LOT 0401
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.
ProvenanceEx family collection since the 1950s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.
Cf. Nolte, B., Die Glasgefäße in alten Ägypten, Berlin, 1968, item 26, for type.
FootnotesThe vessel is a version in lathe-turned wood of a type known to have been produced in glass.
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