An Egyptian Buffware Pottery Jar, Predynastic Period, Nagada II, circa 3600-3200 B.C.

Auction Closed

December 6, 03:36 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Peter Sharrer

An Egyptian Buffware Pottery Jar

Predynastic Period, Nagada II, circa 3600-3200 B.C.

of broad rounded form with twin cylindrical handles and everted rim, the body painted in red with a frieze of flamingos standing on a band of chevrons, and a frieze of gazelles atop a range of hills, latticed rectangles on the shoulder, concentric circles underneath.

Diameter 24 cm.

Please note the correct provenance for this lot should read lot number 158, not 58, in the Bonhams London October 2nd 2014 sale.

English private collection, acquired before 1960, then by descent (Bonhams, London, October 2nd, 2014, no. 58, illus.)

acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Published

“Yes, wonderful things”. Egyptian Art from 3000-100 B.C., Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, in collaboration with Claire Brown Art, London, 2022, cat. no. 15, illus.

For related examples see J. Crowfoot Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1993, p. 108, no. 871, fig. 44, W.M. Flinders Petrie, Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes, London, 1921, pl. XXXIV, 49 and M. Page-Gasser and A. Wiese, Ägypten, Augenblicke der Ewigkeit, Unbekannte Schätze aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, Mainz, 1997, p. 37, no. 16.