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AN EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC PAINTED POTTERY 'FLAMINGO' FLASK
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AN EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC PAINTED POTTERY 'FLAMINGO' FLASK

NAQADA II, CIRCA 3500 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC PAINTED POTTERY 'FLAMINGO' FLASK
NAQADA II, CIRCA 3500 B.C.
The ovoid jar with a band of decorated red 'flamingos' around the centre and wavy red lines above and below, with twin lug handles on either side
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

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Cf. J. Bourriau, Pottery from the Nile Valley before the Arab Conquest, Cambridge, 1981, p. 26, no. 30. Although there is a doubt whether the birds are ostriches or flamingos, it is possible that flamingos did grace the lush swamps and marshes of the Delta in Predynastic times when the climate was different.