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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian, An Egyptian predynastic black-topped pottery jar, Naqada I - II, circa 4000 - 3200 BC

Egyptian

An Egyptian predynastic black-topped pottery jar, Naqada I - II, circa 4000 - 3200 BC
Pottery
Height: 17.5 cm
£ 5,000.00
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Of flaring form, tapering to a flattened base, the body burnished.
Of flaring form, tapering to a flattened base, the body burnished.

Provenance

Excavated near Abusir by J.E. Quibell, circa 1910
A.M. Lythgoe and H.W. Kent, acquired from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (remains of an accession number in red paint on the underside)
Sotheby's, New York, 30 May 1986, lot 56
Lord McAlpine of West Green Collection before 1989
English private collection, 1989 - 2019, acquired from the above 09 March 1989

Literature

For a similar form, see M. Page-Gasser, A. Wiese, Ägypten, Augenblicke der Ewigkeit, 1997, Basel, pp. 20-21, no. 2A.
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