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LOT 0007
Egyptian Woven Reed Basket
NEW KINGDOM, 1539-1075 B.C.
4 1/2 in. (119 grams, 11.3 cm).
Squat in profile with wide mouth, tinted cross to the underside; old collector's label '1766' inside. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Bretagne Encheres, Hotel des Ventes de Rennes, France, 2005-2006.
Property of a French collector.
Literature
Cf. Brovarski, E., Freed, R.E., Doll, S.K., Egypt’s Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C., Boston, 1982, p.136, no.132, for a patterned basket.
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