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Description : AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER JAR FOR THE PHARAOH TUTHMOSIS III NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF TUTHMOSIS III, 1479-1425 B.C. The piriform body on a flat base, with a conical neck, flaring to a wide disk rim, with two columns of hieroglyphs within an incised rectangular box centered on the body, reading: "The beautiful god Men-kheper-Re, Son of Re Thutmose-Nefer-Kheper, given life forever/eternally;" the interior preserving extensive solidified remains of unguents 8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high
Price: 131 000.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 60000 USD-90000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 7
Title : AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER JAR FOR THE PHARAOH TUTHMOSIS III
Provenance : Said to be from The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives, Qurna. A.R. Callender, archeologist working with Howard Carter in Luxor, 1919. Edward S. Harkness, New York, Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Minneapolis Institute of Art, gifted by Harkness in 1927 (accession no. 27.12.8). A Midwestern Museum; Egyptian and Classical Antiquities, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 May 1958, lot 105. The Lannan Foundation. The Lannan Foundation; Important Classical, Egyptian and Western Asiatic Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 19 May 1979, lot 260. Charles Pankow (d. 2004), San Francisco. The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art; Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2004, lot 50.
Literature : "A Notable Gift of Egyptian Antiquities," in Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. XVII, no. 5, 4 February 1928, pp. 22, 24, and 25. H.E. Winlock, The Treasure of Three Egyptian Princesses, New York, 1948, pp. 11-12 and 54. H. Betz, Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, San Francisco, 1981, p. 33. C. Lilyquist, Egyptian Stone Vessels: Kian through Tuthmosis IV, New York, 1995, p. 40, no. 85. C. Lilyquist, The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis III, New York, 2003, p. 142, no. 59, and p. 207, fig. 128a-c.
Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 13 Dec 2013 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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