An Egyptian Alabaster Jar
Sale 1273 - Antiquities & Ancient Art: Including Property from the Brummer Collection
Dec 5, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
Lot Description
An Egyptian Alabaster Jar
Middle Kingdom, 11th-14th Dynasty, 2040-1640 B.C.
Height 2 3/8 inches (6 cm).
Property from the Collection of Curator and Scholar Sidney M. Goldstein
Dr. Sidney M. Goldstein is widely considered one of the foremost scholars in the study of ancient glass. After working as a curator at the Corning Museum of Glass from 1973 to 1983, he served as Associate Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Art at the St. Louis Art Museum until his retirement in 2009. Dr. Goldstein has authored and co-authored numerous publications including Glass: from Sasanian antecedents to European imitations (2005), and Pre-Roman and early Roman glass in the Corning Museum of Glass (1979).
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