About the lot N° 51
Title : Alabaster Jar
Size : height 14 in. 35.6 cm.Provenance : Howard CarterSpink & Son, London, 1940The Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Sotheby, Parke-Bernet New York, The Cranbrook Collections, May 2nd-5th, 1972, no. 348, illus.)Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, no. 266, illus.Literature : Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, 1981, p. 31, illus.Notes : It is probable that this vessel was among a group of thirteen alabaster jars discovered on February 26th, 1920, immediately outside the entranceway to Merneptah's tomb in the Valley of the Kings (for the relevant entry in Carter's notebook and the excavation photo see http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/cc/page/tscript/ts18a.html). Carter himself later wrote, We presently came upon a small cache containing thirteen alabaster jars, bearing the names of Rameses II and Mer-en-Ptah, probably from the tomb of the latter. As this was the nearest approach to a real find that we had yet made in The Valley, we were naturally somewhat excited, and Lady Carnarvon, I remember, insisted on digging out these jars ---beautiful specimens they were---with her own hands (Howard Carter and A.C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen, vol. 1, London, 1923, p. 83). Lady Carnarvon's own example, with gazelle handles, is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see Burlington Fine Arts Exhibition, pl. XXXII, and Hayes, Scepter of Egypt, vol. II, p. 354, fig. 221). Other examples from the same cache, now for the most part in Cairo, are mentioned by Aston, Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels, pp. 152 and 154. For a related example see Sotheby's, London, December 11th-12th, 1989, no. 53 (Reflets du divin, no. 55).Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art
Sale date : 08 Dec 2004
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