Lot no. 717
LARGE EGYPTIAN FAIENCE CORNFLOWER INLAY New Kingdom, Ca. 1550 - 1069 BC. A bichrome faience inlay of flat-backed cornflower form with a rounded green bulb incised with a diamond lattice rising to a short constricted collar, surmounted by a flaring blue head with evenly spaced vertical ribs and a straight upper edge. For similar see: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1914.707. Size: 38mm x 18mm; Weight: 4g Provenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014; Ex. Bonhams, 28 April 2010, Lot: 18; Ex. Private collection, acquired in London in the 1970s. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
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