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LOT 0453
Egyptian Khufu Pyramid Mastabas Offering Pot
OLD KINGDOM, 4TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2570-2500 B.C.
4 5/8 in. (214 grams, 11.7 cm).
A coarse pottery footed offering dish with inverted rim and conical body, likely used for cereals; from a mastaba in the pyramid field associated with Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old UK collection.
From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.
Accompanied by an identification display card.
Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt.
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Joseph Altounian opened his shop in 1906 in Paris and then relocated to Mâcon in 1924 when he was joined by his wife Henriette Lorbet. They specialised in Egyptian and Greek art, medieval sculpture and decorative arts, selling to major museums both in Europe and in the United States. At his death in 1954 the business was taken over by his daughter, Jacqueline Altounian-Lorbet, and her husband Bernard Rousset, who then specialised in antique furniture.
