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LOT 0008

Egyptian Predynastic Globular Flask

NAQADA II, 3500-3150 B.C.

8 1/4 in (925 grams, 21 cm).

A globular-shaped body with a disc base, short neck, and everted rim at the mouth; featuring a burnished red wash surface.

Provenance

Private collection.
with Bonhams, London, 22 September 1998, no.130.
European private collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Bourriau, J., Pottery from the Nile Valley Before the Arab Conquest, Cambridge, 1981, p. 74, no. 73, for a comparable flask from Naqada.

CONDITION

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LOT 0008

Egyptian Predynastic Globular Flask

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040

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