Egyptian Predynastic Terracotta Storage Jar

c.3rd millennium BC. A terracotta storage jar with slender piriform body tapering to a rounded base, rolled rim. Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 36.1.81, for similar; see Crowfoot Payne, J., Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1993. 2.7 kg, 45cm high (17 3/4"). Bonhams, London, 13 April 2000, lot 420. Private collection of Egyptologist Paul Whelan, Hertfordshire, UK. Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Bonhams catalogue page.
Condition Report: Fine condition, repaired.