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Egyptian Black-Topped Redware Beaker, Predynastic Period, probably Nagada II, circa 3600 - 3200 BC

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May 24, 03:58 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Egyptian Black-Topped Redware Beaker, Predynastic Period, probably Nagada II, circa 3600 - 3200 BC


of deep ovoid form with flattened base and slightly everted rim, the exterior surface highly burnished.

Height: 5 3/4 in (14.6 cm)

Mathias Komor, New York (H 650)
Acquired from the above on February 10, 1965
Cf. Winifred Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Egypt in The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1984, pls. 1, 3-4, and Lawrence M. Berman, ed., Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1999,  p. 105, fig. 48.