AN EGYPTIAN PORPHYRITIC DIORITE VASE, 12TH DYNASTY, 1938-1759 B.C. | An Egyptian Porphyritic Diorite Vase

of slender slightly flaring form with everted rim.

probably Dikran Khan Kelekian, Paris and New York
collection of Royall Tyler (1884-1953), Paris
then by descent to the current owner

Royall Tyler was an art historian, collector, and international financial expert based in Paris. In the 1920s and 30s he assembled a collection of early Egyptian, Persian, and Byzantine art, acquired mainly from dealers in Paris such as Dikran Kelekian and Joseph Brummer. Other fine Egyptian hardstone vases from his collection , in addition to the four examples included in the this catalogue, were sold  by Sotheby’s, New York on December 8th, 2011 (nos. 38-39), June 7th, 2012 (nos. 1-2), and June 3rd, 2015 (nos. 2-5). For the form compare M. Page-Gasser and A.B. Wiese, Égypte, Moments d’éternité, Mainz, 1997, no. 47.