About the lot N° 66
Title : AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA CANOPIC JAR LID, 18TH DYNASTY, 1540-1292 B.C.
Size : Height 4 1/2 in. 11.4 cm.Provenance : Christie's, New York, December 15th, 1993, no. 4, illus.Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1997, inv. no. CNC01Notes :
A large old paper label on the top of of the lid, written in a hand appearing to be early 19th century up to the 1870s and now mostly illegible, seems to include " ...Thebes, Upper Egypt... "Cf. S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, C. Roehrig, Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, 1988, no. 92 and b (accessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1872)Sotheby\'s, auctioneer,
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Sale title : Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities
Sale date : 10 Dec 2009
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