Egyptian black-top ovoid vessel, Predynastic Period, Naqada II, c.3600-3300 BC
Terracotta
Height: 19cm
11862 TA
Ovoid body tapering to a small flattened foot, the wide rim and top of the vase with a highly burnished black surface, the body a red-umber. Minor surface losses to...
Ovoid body tapering to a small flattened foot, the wide rim and top of the vase with a highly burnished black surface, the body a red-umber. Minor surface losses to the rim restored.
Provenance
Alfred Reinhart (1873-1935), EgyptCarl Leonhard Burckhardt (1902-1965) and Marianne Burckhardt-Reinhart (1905-1981), Egypt; acquired between 1930-1950
Rosmarin Cereghetti-Burckhardt (1929-2022), Basel, Switzerland; gifted by the above
Private collection; by descent from the above
