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LOT 0034
Egyptian Rock Crystal Dummy Vessel
OLD KINGDOM, 5TH-6TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 2500-2200 B.C.
2 3/8 in. (55 grams, 59 mm).
Model amphora with a piriform body, a long, flaring, trumpet-like neck and rim, and a shallow depression at the top.
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate no.13231-249997.
Cf. Aston, B.G., Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels: Materials and Forms, SAGA 5, Heidelberg, 1994, 140, no. 137, for examples of the form; Seipel, W., Ägypten. Götter, Gräber und die Kunst – 4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube, Linz, 1989, p. 72, no. 41a-f, for an assembled set of dummy vessels associated with the Opening of the Mouth ritual, including an almost identically shaped amphora.
FootnotesThis was one of the model vessels in a set associated with the 'Opening of the Mouth' ritual, which revived the deceased.
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LOT 0034
Egyptian Rock Crystal Dummy Vessel
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£1,000 (EUR 1,160; USD 1,350) +BP*
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