Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Information
Pottery model of a boat with red paint and three carved holes. Marked in red 1613 and in pencil MWC. Compare with very similar objects in Cairo's Egyptian Museum from Saqqara, dated to the Old Kingdom.
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 22931. Two pottery model sarcophagus 4 1/2" x 2 1/4". Purchased at Stevens's Auction Rooms, London, 23 November 1920 Lot 383: "Two model boats, curious terra-cotta animal, Roman lamp, bone carving and other antiquities".
Specifications
- Accession number
- 1973.4.201b
- Collection type
- Art
- Culture
- Old Kingdom
- Date made
- 2686 BC – 2160 BC
- Collector
- Henry Solomon Wellcome
- Date collected
- 1920 before
- Materials
- Pottery
- Measurements
- Overall: 30 mm x 53 mm x 107 mm
- Credit line
- Gift of the Trustees of the Wellcome Collection
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Provenance
- Location
- Item not currently on display
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