An Egyptian Obsidian and Gold Alabastron

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1307 B.C.

Height 3 1/2 inches (8.89 cm).

Property from a New England Collection

Provenance:

Ancient Works of Art, New York, prior to 1979.

Carl Tautenhahn (1924-2008), Houston, acquired from the above, 11 October 1979.

Galerie Cybele, Paris, February 2022 (Catalogue 5, p. 10-11).

Exhibited:

Netherlands, Maastricht, The European Fine Art Fair, 24-30 June 2022.

For a near identical vessel, see E. Ferry, Art of the Two Lands, Egypt from 4000 B.C.-1000 A.D., New York, 2006, pp. 106-107, no. 34. For a similar vessel in form and scale made from serpentinite, see C. Lilyquist, Egyptian Stone Vessels: Khian Through Tuthmosis IV, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995, no. 38,14, fig. 24.

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An Egyptian Obsidian and Gold Alabastron

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1550-1307 B.C.

Height 3 1/2 inches (8.89 cm).

Property from a New England Collection

Provenance:

Ancient Works of Art, New York, prior to 1979.

Carl Tautenhahn (1924-2008), Houston, acquired from the above, 11 October 1979.

Galerie Cybele, Paris, February 2022 (Catalogue 5, p. 10-11).

Exhibited:

Netherlands, Maastricht, The European Fine Art Fair, 24-30 June 2022.

Antiquities and Pre-Columbian Art: Expressions of the Past

An Egyptian Obsidian and Gold Alabastron

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