AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE VOTIVE CLEPSYDRA, LATE PERIOD, 664-330 B.C.

AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE VOTIVE CLEPSYDRA
LATE PERIOD, 664-330 B.C.
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high

Provenance
Acquired by the current owner, New York, 1975 or prior.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON

Literature
W.K. Simpson, The Face of Egypt: Permanence and Change in Egyptian Art, Katonah, 1977, no. 69.
P. Koob, Divine, Domestic and Desert Animals in Ancient Egyptian Art, Greenwich, 1979, no. 68.
R.E. Freed, A Divine Tour of Egypt, Memphis, 1983, p. 94, no. 17.
B.R. Reque, The World Past to Present, Lexington, 1985, p. 53.
F.D. Friedman, ed., Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience, New York, 1998, pp. 145 and 232, no. 132.

Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, periodically between 30 January 1975-31 October 2001 (Loan no. 6.1975).
Katonah Gallery and the Dallas Museum of Art, The Face of Egypt, Permanence and Change in Egyptian Art, 13 March-28 August 1977.
Greenwich, Connecticut, Greenwich Library, Divine, Domestic and Desert Animals in Ancient Egyptian Art, 4 January-4 March 1979.
Memphis State University, A Divine Tour of Ancient Egypt, 6 October-8 December 1983.
Lexington, University of Kentucky Art Museum, The World Past to Present, 1985.
Cleveland Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience, 10 May-5 July 1998.