TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE VASES
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TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE VASES

ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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TWO EGYPTIAN FAIENCE VASES
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Left: 8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high; right: 8 ¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Left:
Reportedly found at Tuneh.
Dr. Daniel Marie Fouquet (1850-1914), Cairo.
Collection du Docteur Fouquet du Caire; Galerie Georges Petit, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-14 June 1922, lot, 249, pl. XI.
with Parish Watson & Co., New York.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the above, 1930.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-1961.
Winthrop Rockefeller, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, 1961-1973.
Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1973-1974.
David Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the above, 1974.

Right:
Reportedly found at Tuneh.
with Ars Classica, Geneva.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the above, 1930.
Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (with a life interest to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.), 1948-1961.
Winthrop Rockefeller, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas, 1961-1973.
Estate of Winthrop Rockefeller, 1973-1974.
David Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the above, 1974.
Literature
R. Ellsworth et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Arts of Asia and Neighboring Cultures, New York, 1993, vol III, pp. 372-373, nos. 278 and 279.
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