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Estimate
GBP (£) 1,800 - 2,400
EUR (€) 2,070 - 2,760
USD ($) 2,230 - 2,970
£1,620 (EUR 1,866; USD 2,006) (+bp*)
CIRCA 7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
5 3/4 in. (256 grams, 14.7 cm wide).
Shallow profile with rounded underside and rounded rim; underside with central impressed cruciform motif with one eccentric arm; inner face with two ropework bands flanking stamped images (advancing ibex, lotus in blossom, leonine-headed aegis (perhaps Sekhmet); central ring of pellets with herringbone borders, cruciform design of four lotus plants above stems with leonine-headed aegis and pseudo cartouches topped with Maat-feather plumes.
PROVENANCE:
From a private UK collection since the 1980s.
Acquired mid 2000s.
Property of a London gentleman.
Accompanied by a scholarly report by Egyptologist Paul Whelan.
LITERATURE:
Cf. similar phiale (offering bowl) lacking the detailed stampwork in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession number 1989.11.7.
