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LOT 0480
Egyptian Red Mottled Stone Piriform Jar
PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, NAQADA II, 3500-3200 B.C.
3 in. (248 grams, 76 mm).
With narrow base and broad rounded shoulder. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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