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Egyptian Pottery Vases 210 EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC HARD PINK WARE POTTERY NECKED JAR with tubular handles, decorated red spots. Naqada II, ca. 3200 BC. H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) Ex. collection of Richard E.S. Maxson (1925-75), Amherst, MA; World Museum of Ancient Art, Northfield, MA; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Skinner‘s, Boston, in 1989. 211 EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC POTTERY NECKED JAR, ovoid and decorated with panels of red painted wavy 'water' signs, with tubular handles on each shoulder. Naqada II, ca. 3200 BC. H. 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) Ex. collection of Richard E.S. Maxson (1925-75), Amherst, MA; World Museum of Ancient Art, Northfield, MA; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Skinner‘s, Boston, in 1989. 212 EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC POTTERY SQUAT JAR, decorated with panels of red painted wavy 'water' signs, zigzag and bird on base, with tubular handles on each shoulder. Naqada II, ca. 3200 BC. H. 3 in. (7.6 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Christie’s, London, in April 1987.
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EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC POTTERY VASE with two wave-form handles, decorated in red on each side with two boats with two cabins. Naqada II, ca. 3200 BC. H. 6 in. (15.2 cm.) Choice! Ex private collection, Basel; J.M.E. collection, NY, acquired at Sotheby’s London, July 1989. Published: K. Lange, Ägypticshe Kunst Zurich, Berlin 1939, no. 11; Geschenk des Nils, Basle, 1978, no. 15. Exhibited: Archaeologische Sammlung der Universitat Zurich; Historisches Museum, Bern; Kunstmuseum, Luzern; Musee d’Art ey d’Histoire, Geneva. 214 EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC POTTERY NECKED-JAR WITH TUBULAR HANDLES decorated in red with spirals interspersed with rush lines. Naqada II, ca. 3200-3050 BC. H. 4 1/2 in. ( 11.4 cm.) Ex Gieringer collection sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 28/29, 1959, lot 91, acquired by Dr. Richard LeBaron Bowen, Jr. (1919-2013), Providence, Rhode Island, thence by descent. Cf. J.C. Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, 1993, no. 840. 215 EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC POTTERY VASE Buff, painted with red horizontal bands of wavy lines; a fan on either side; with two lug handles. Naqada II, ca. 3200-3050 BC. H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, acquired from C. Ede, London, December 1991.
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