AN EGYPTIAN ROCK CRYSTAL ALABASTRON
AN EGYPTIAN ROCK CRYSTAL ALABASTRON
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AN EGYPTIAN ROCK CRYSTAL ALABASTRON

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 23RD-25TH DYNASTY, 818-656 B.C.

细节
AN EGYPTIAN ROCK CRYSTAL ALABASTRON
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 23RD-25TH DYNASTY, 818-656 B.C.
5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
来源
with Wilhelm Henrich (1906-1980), Frankfurt, 1960.
Margret Köser (d. 1986), Hamburg, acquired by 1961; thence by descent.
Property from a German Private Collection; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 13 December 2013, lot 14.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London, acquired from the above (Ariadne Galleries, 2014, no. 21).
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2015.
出版
H. W. Müller et al., eds., 5000 Jahre aegyptische Kunst, Essen, 1961, p. 78, pl. 9.
展览
Essen, Villa Hügel, 5000 Jahre aegyptische Kunst, 15 May-27 August 1961.

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Hannah Fox Solomon
Hannah Fox Solomon Head of Department, Specialist

拍品专文

Egyptian vessels constructed from rock crystal are exceptionally rare. For a similar example, see the alabastron inscribed for Pharaoh User-maat-re Rudamun of the 23rd Dynasty in the Louvre, pp. 104-105 in I. Bardiès-Fronty and S. Pennec, eds., Voyage dans le cristal. The present example was likely altered in antiquity; originally, it had small lug handles high on the shoulders and a larger rim.

The famous “Sargon Vase” from Assur, now in the British Museum, reflects the new technological capacity in the 8th century B.C. to cast vessels of this shape in transparent glass, imitating calcite and rock crystal prototypes (see A. Caubet, “Phoenician and East Mediterranean Glass,” in J. Aruz, et al., eds., Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, pp. 167-170). Such alabastra had an extraordinarily wide distribution from Egypt to Assyria, and it is possible that this example was modified to reflect local tastes outside of Egypt, its likely place of production. Similar alabastra were repurposed as far away as Spain for funerary use (see. J.L.L. Castro, “Colonials, Merchants, and Alabaster Vases: The Western Phoenician Aristocracy,” Antiquity, vol. 80, no. 307, pp. 74-88).

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