AN EGYPTIAN TRAVERTINE TWO-HANDLED JAR, CIRCA 1069-404 B.C. AN EGYPTIAN TRAVERTINE TWO-HANDLED JAR, CIRCA 1069-404 B.C. AN EGYPTIAN TRAVERTINE TWO-HANDLED JAR, CIRCA 1069-404 B.C. AN EGYPTIAN TRAVERTINE TWO-HANDLED JAR, CIRCA 1069-404 B.C.

AN EGYPTIAN TRAVERTINE TWO-HANDLED JAR, CIRCA 1069-404 B.C.

Reference: ART600447

A two-handled travertine jar, the body tapering out to a flat base, wide offset rim and twin vestigial lug handles. Third Intermediate-Late Period, 21st-27th Dynasty.
9 cm. height
1.1 kg.

CONDITION
Fine condition.

PROVENANCE
Previously in Hong Kong family collection since the early 1980s, previously in a Japanese art gallery since 1973.

REFERENCE
Similar 27th Dynasty Egyptian jar cf. jar with the name of Xerxes the Great, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 14.2.8