New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1550-1291 BC This eye-wateringly beautiful vessel is formed of a heavy serpentine, with a bulbous body, the wide neck with everted rim and flared foot. The bulbous body with flared foot, the wide neck with everted rim. For similar see Bomhams, lot 152, 28th November 2012. The Collection of the late Wilhelm Horn; Christie's, London, 11 December 1987, lot 209. K. Sowada, "Black-topped Ware in Archaic Contexts", in C. Eyre (ed.), Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge 3-9 September 1995, Additional Abstracts (Cambridge, 1995), p. 19. Graefe, Erhart 1981. Untersuchungen zur Verwaltung un Geschichte der Institution der Gottesgemahlin des Amun vom Beginn des Neuen Reiches bis zur Spatzeit, 2. ?gyptologische Abhandlungen, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pp. 114-5.Size: L:70mm / W:65mm ; 225gProvenance: Property of a UK Ancient Art Gallery; formerly in US Art Gallery, NYC, 12/2016; previously in J.M. Eisenberg collection, NY.