SMALL ALABASTER KOHL JAR WITH LID

SMALL ALABASTER KOHL JAR WITH LID

On protruding base, domed shoulder, wide flaring rim, flat top with banded disc-shaped lid covering drilled hole in centre of jar.
Ex private coll., by descent from Colonel A.E.S. Irvine, Royal Army Medical Corps (DSO), 1920s.

H. 3.8 cm. Tiny chip from rim.
Middle Kingdom, 11th-12th dyn., 2040-1782 BC

Cf. W.M. Flinders Petrie, Stone and Metal Vases, Westminster 1977 (repr.), pl. XXIX; E. Doetsch-Amberger, Ägyptische Sammlung, Köln 1987, no. 37
Cf. G. Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltinmore 1946, pp. 117-120, nos. 487-8var., pl LXXVII-LXXVIII