Details
AN EGYPTIAN OBSIDIAN ALABASTRON
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII-XX, 1550-1070 B.C.
Of slender, elegant proportions, the body with rounded shoulders tapering towards the base, on an integral stand with concave sides flaring to the edge of the foot, the cylindrical neck rising to the flat disk rim, the interior well-hollowed
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Said to be found in Lebanon prior to 1955.
Private Collection, Beirut, 1968.
Private Collection, Geneva.
Literature
E.A. Feery, et al., Art of the Two Lands, Egypt from 4000 B.C.-1000 A.D., New York, 2006, no. 34, pp. 106-107.
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