Jar

Jar with incurving top, raised rim and carinated profile. Label: "Egyptian alabaster bowl. De Rustafjaell coll: cat: No. 163 - £7-...". Base marked in pencil 14002. Compare with W. M. F. Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases (London, 1937) no. 434. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, large area of loss, running cracks, scratched, chipped, label adhered to surface, surface dirt. Danson Catalogue 2 no. not recorded. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 20-24 January 1913 (de Rustafjaell collection).