EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD, 1ST-2ND DYNASTY, 3000-2650 B.C.

Details

AN EGYPTIAN FOSSILIFEROUS LIMESTONE JAR
EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD, 1ST-2ND DYNASTY, 3000-2650 B.C.
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Professor John Garstang (1876-1956), Blackburn.
Lord Rea, Liverpool.
The Hon. Robert Erskine, England.
with Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York.
Antiquities and Islamic Art; Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 1987, lot 7.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 13, no. R-021.

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