About the lot N° 312
Title : Alabaster Flask
Size : height 5 15/16 in. 17.6 cm.Provenance : ANOTHER PROPERTYNotes : For a Dynasty XVIII vessel with a single handle in the form of a vervet see Fr. W. von Bissing, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, Steingefässe, Cairo, 1907, p. 64, no. 18362, pl. 5. For similar workmanship cf. Christine Lilyquist, Egyptian Stone Vessels: Khian through Tuthmosis III, New York, 1995, figs. 88-89.Vessels including monkeys in their decoration were particularly popular from Dynasty XVII through the reign of Tuthmosis III. Vervets (grivets, or African green monkeys) were no longer indigenous by the time this vase was carved, and were imported from Nubia, and also subsequently exported to other lands. Perhaps the best known representations of monkeys that reached parts of the Mediterranean via Egypt are paintings of blue monkeys in Building Beta at Akrotiri, Thera (see Christos Doumas, The Wall-paintings of Thera, Athens, 1992, figs. 85-89).Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities
Sale date : 09 Dec 2004
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