BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
AN EGYPTIAN PALE BLUE-GREEN FAIENCE VESSEL FRAGMENT, THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD/26TH DYNASTY, 1075-525 B.C.
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July 9, 02:06 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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AN EGYPTIAN PALE BLUE-GREEN FAIENCE VESSEL FRAGMENT, THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD/26TH DYNASTY, 1075-525 B.C.
decorated in shallow relief in two registers, with friezes showing a goose, festooned lotus blossoms and buds, a striding human figure and leonine animal in the upper frieze, palmettes in higher relief below.
Height 7.8 cm.; width 7 cm.
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probably Reverend William MacGregor (1848-1937), United Kingdom
Alphonse Kann (1870-1948), Saint-Germain-en-Laye
seized from the above by the ERR in 1940 and stored at the Musée du Jeu de Paume
restituted to Alphonse Kann in 1947
by descent to his niece Hélène Kann Bokanowski
private collection, by descent from the above (ArtCurial, Paris, From Alphonse to Hélène Kann: The Legacy of Artistic Passion, February 22nd, 2017, no. 2, illus.)
Henry Wallis, The MacGregor collection; a contribution towards the history of Egyptian pottery, London, 1898, p. 85, fig. 186, illus (https://archive.org/details/egyptianceramica00wall/page/84/mode/2up)