ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NEW YEAR'S FLASK

Greco Roman Period, Ca. 30 BC - 200 AD
A faience New Year's flask of a lentoid body with twin arched handles flanking the trumpet-shaped spout. One side is decorated with a large rosette and the other with a seated deity. This kind of flasks may once have been filled with perfume, oil, or water from the Nile, and it would have been a gift associated with the festive season at the beginning of the new year when the Nile began to flood.
Size: L:60mm / W:40mm ; 37g
Provenance: Property of a London Art gallery; formerly acquired from a Belgium collector in 2006; formerly in an old French collection since the 1960s.
Estimate: GBP 150 - 300