Lot 75
75
AN EGYPTIAN 'BLUE' ALABASTRON, OF BAGGY FORM, the short cylindrical neck decorated with a narrow collar around the shoulder, double bands around the centre, and another band below the rim, with traces of twin vestigial handles below the rim, Third Intermediate Period, circa 9th-8th Century B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN 'BLUE' ALABASTRON, OF BAGGY FORM, the short cylindrical neck decorated with a narrow collar around the shoulder, double bands around the centre, and another band below the rim, with traces of twin vestigial handles below the rim, Third Intermediate Period, circa 9th-8th Century B.C.
7in. (17.9cm.) high

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Cf. a blue glass frit alabastron in the Norbert Schimmel collection, inscribed with a cartouche of Darius I, Dynasty XXVII, 521-486 B.C., sold Sotheby's New York, 16 December 1992, lot 119 for $187,000

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