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A Large Egyptian Breccia Bowl, 1st/2nd Dynasty, 2965-2750 B.C.
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- A Large Egyptian Breccia Bowl
- Breccia
- Diameter 11 1/2 in. 29.2 cm.
of deep rounded form with broad shoulder and beveled rim.
Provenance
probably Paul Wallraf (1890-1981) Collection, London
probably Spink and Son, London
Sotheby’s, New York, June 18th, 1991, no. 13, illus.
probably Spink and Son, London
Sotheby’s, New York, June 18th, 1991, no. 13, illus.
Catalogue Note
Cf. W.M. Flinders-Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases, Guildford, 1977, pls. XIX- XXI, and Winifred Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 1984, cat. no 129, for vessels related in form.
Paul Wallraf, a member of a banking family in Cologne, left there in 1934 and settled in London. He and his second wife, Muriel Ezra, née Sassoon, assembled a very large and fine collection of paintings, drawings, bronzes, and other works of art, all housed in two apartments on Grosvenor Place.