Lot 197
197
THE PROPERTY OF A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A GESSO-PAINTED MUD WALL PAINTING FROM THE TOMB OF SEBEKHOTEP, showing part of a gold fluted vessel with frieze of 'silver' spotted gold rosettes below the everted rim, with small shrine, a pintail duck and two rosettes on stalks standing proud above, a tall globular vessel with flaring foot and tall flaring neck showing an overlapping 'scale' pattern with 'silver' spots, tall twisted spiral loop handles and a lid in the form of a recumbent gazelle, traces of a lotiform chalice to the right, Dynasty XVIII, circa 1410 B.C., from Thebes

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A GESSO-PAINTED MUD WALL PAINTING FROM THE TOMB OF SEBEKHOTEP, showing part of a gold fluted vessel with frieze of 'silver' spotted gold rosettes below the everted rim, with small shrine, a pintail duck and two rosettes on stalks standing proud above, a tall globular vessel with flaring foot and tall flaring neck showing an overlapping 'scale' pattern with 'silver' spots, tall twisted spiral loop handles and a lid in the form of a recumbent gazelle, traces of a lotiform chalice to the right, Dynasty XVIII, circa 1410 B.C., from Thebes
12¼ x 13in. (31 x 33cm.)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. Leclant (ed.), Ägypten, II, Das Grossreich, Munich, 1979, p. 88, pl. 72

Acquired by the present owner from a deceased estate in 1969, where it had been since the 1950s. A procession of Syrian offering bearers from the same tomb (No. 63) is exhibited at the British Museum, acquired in 1869

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