Egyptian alabastron, Late Dynastic Period, 26th Dynasty, c.664-525 BC
Serpentine
Height: 16cm, width: 4.8cm
10892 TA
£ 6,800
Tall alabastron carved in greenish grey mottled stone with two lug handles beneath the shoulder, the body widening towards the slightly flattened, rounded base. The short cylindrical neck and a wide, flat lip with rounded edges is a single piece of restoration.
Provenance
Private collection, Montreal, Canada; acquired 1960sDan Klein, Le Petit Musée, Montreal, Canada
Tom Swope, Hudson, New York, USA
Literature
For an alabastron with a similar slightly flattened base in the same material, incorrectly described as 'Zwarte graniert - Granit noir', see Eric Gubel, et al, Van Nijl tot Schelde - du Nil a l'Escaut (Brussels, 1991), pp.214-5, no.264. This example, like ours, is without a neck, and it's quite possible this was deliberate, either never made, or separately made and now lost.
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