Lot no. 29
TWO TERRACOTTA TONNELET VASES
Predynastic Egyptian art, Nagada II, 3600-3300 BC
Two tonnelet-shaped vases with an ovoid body fitted with two small perforated handles and topped by a flat lip. The smaller vase is decorated in brown or ochre with linear motifs and the larger with boats.
Slightly missing.
Height 8.3 and 13.8 cm
Provenance: Digard, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 February 2011: no. 40 (ill.) (for one)
Mes Laurin, Guilloux, Buffetaud, Tailleur, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 March 1977: n°40 (for the other)
Private collection of Madame C.
Two Egyptian pottery jars,
Predynastic Period, Naqada II, 3600-3300 B.C.
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