Egyptian painted squat jar, Predynastic, Naqada II, c.3500 BC
Terracotta
Diameter: 22.5cm, height: 16.5cm
11031
Charles Ede, London
Further images
Large squat earthenware jar with dual 'lug' or 'string-hole' handles and a rounded base, decorated with paint in a deep red. On the body are closely packed spirals, and around...
Large squat earthenware jar with dual 'lug' or 'string-hole' handles and a rounded base, decorated with paint in a deep red. On the body are closely packed spirals, and around the flat, out-turned rim is a band of strokes forming a lattice. Two sections of the lip, and the chips to the lip and lug handle restored.
Needler states that this type of vessel is clearly an imitation of their stone counterparts, and that the red and cream bichrome of breccia is imitated by the spirals.
Needler states that this type of vessel is clearly an imitation of their stone counterparts, and that the red and cream bichrome of breccia is imitated by the spirals.
Provenance
Albert Newall, Cape Town, South Africa; exported to the UK 1970s
Peter Newall, UK; by descent from the above
Julie Newall, UK; from the above, her husband
Albert Newall was an antiques dealer in South Africa and had a small collection of antiquities
Literature
Compare Lawrence M. Berman, The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Egyptian Art (New York, 1999), no.52, p.107. Also see Charles Ede, Collecting Antiquities; an Introductory Guide (London, 1989), p.44, fig.119. for an example with smaller spirals see Winifred Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum, p.204, no.543
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