Lot Essay
Cf. Egypt's Golden Age, The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982, p. 151, no. 157 for a 'faience' basket and lid and no. 158 for a 'faience' pyxis with holes below the rim for securing a lid; the latter with lid also illustrated in S. Schoske et al, "Anch" Blumen für das Leben, Munchen, 1992, pp. 74-75, no. 6; and E. Riefstahl, Ancient Egyptian Glass and Glazes, The Brooklyn Museum, 1968, p. 19, no. 15 for a 'faience' seed basket bearing the name of Queen Ti'a, wife of Amenhotep II and mother of Tuthmosis IV.