Description & Technical information
Period: Middle Kingdom 2040 to 1782 BC
Origin: Egypt
Medium: Amethyst
Provenance: With Dr Elie Borowski (1913-2003), Basel, since at least 1955.
Private Collection of Dr Rudolph Schmidt (1900-1970), Solothurn, Switzerland, acquired from the above on the 18th June 1955 for SFR 4,000 (accompanied by copy of journal entry from 18th June 1955).
Thence by descent to his sister Erica Peters-Schmidt in 1970.
Thence by descent to Malte and Janie Peters in 1988.
Private Collection.
Exhibitions: Ancient Egypt: Masterpieces from Collectors and Collections, 5th-10th June 2012, Brussels, Belgium.
BRAFA, Brussels, January 2019.
Categories: Classical & Egyptian antiquities
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