Three Faience Objects, 6th/4th Century B.C.

comprising a Rhodian aryballos in the form of a hedgehog standing on a base, the body molded with a grid pattern imitating spines, a Rhodian aryballos of globular form with body molded in relief with a rosette on the base and a lattice design on the sides, both vessels with details painted in black, and an Egyptian figure of the Horus Falcon standing on a rectangular base and wearing the Crown of Upper Egypt.

Meyer Collection, London, 1978

1st aryballos: nose chipped, rim chipped around most of perimeter, crest above forehead mostly missing; 2nd aryballos: most of glaze has flaked away exposing core material except on top of rim and on base where areas of bright glaze are preserved, most of rim is chipped away; falcon: large chip on one side of base, tip of wings broken off, large chip on side of crown not shown
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For related aryballoi see Louvre, Objets de toilette
égyptiens, nos. 361, 369, and 383 (the latter also illustrated in Faïences. Faïences de l'Antiquité. De l'Égypte à l'Iran,  A. Caubet and G. Pierrat-Bonnefois, eds., Paris, 2005, no. 373, p. 135).