Bidspirit auction | EGYPTIAN FAIENCE GREEN GLAZED MODEL

EGYPTIAN FAIENCE GREEN GLAZED MODEL OF A FIG - Middle Kingdom, Ca. 2055 - 1773 BC . A hollow, light-glazed, faience egg-shaped ball, perhaps a model of a fig. For similar see: National Museums Liverpool, Acc. No. 16.11.06.231e; Hayes, William C. 1953. The Scepter of Egypt I: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom. Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 337, fig. 225. Size: 23mm x 17mm; Weight: 3.3g Provenance: Prince collection, 1990s-2014, acquired from Sand of Time Gallery; Ex. George Ollinger, Pennsylvania and Marsha Carter, Connecticut, collected in the 1950's-1960's.