NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, 1550-1295 B.C.

Details

AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE CHALICE
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, 1550-1295 B.C.
5 ½ in. (13.9 cm.) high

Provenance

with Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo (Exhibition of Kokusai Bijutsu, No. 3, 1975, no. 1; 10th Anniversary Sale, 1982, no. 322).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The exterior of this chalice is decorated with four lotus buds. As F.D. Friedman informs (Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, no. 114), "the meaning of the lotus, the ubiquitous symbol of new life, was enhanced through depicting it in faience, a material in which notions of light and rebirth were intrinsic."

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