Egyptian
An Egyptian alabaster-calcite bowl, Old Kingdom, circa 4th - 5th Dynasty, circa 2500 BC
Alabaster-calcite
Diameter: 31.6 cm
Further images
The circular vessel with elegantly sloping sides and an incurving rim. Composed of an orange-pink and cream swirling banded alabaster-calcite.
The circular vessel with elegantly sloping sides and an incurving rim. Composed of an orange-pink and cream swirling banded alabaster-calcite.
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired before 1983Galerie Nefer, Zurich, 2006
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above
Literature
For the form, see W. M. F. Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases, Warminster, England, 1977. For another Old Kingdom bowl with reddish streaking in the alabaster see Cleveland Museum of Art, acc. no. 1916.2031: L.M. Berman, and K.J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1999, p. 87.