A rare Egyptian White Faience Vessel, Hyksos Period, ca. 1600 BCE Jewelry - Rings Condition: The pendant is intact

Condition: The pendant is intact and in excellent condition overall

making this pendant the most accurate reproduction ever created

Provenance: Private collection of Geoffrey Metz

Exhibited:  Workhouse Art Center

Chronology

A rare Egyptian White Faience Vessel, Hyksos Period, ca. 1600 BCE Jewelry - Rings Condition: The pendant is intactThis rare thistleshaped vessel is executed in white faience and decorated in an umber pigment applied in vertical panels of zigzag motif. Directly beneath the lip is a narrow register of closely spaced vertical strokes, followed by a second band composed of zigzag ornament, a decorative schema seen in small faience wares of the Second Intermediate Period. The vessels refined form and pared ornament suggest it was intended as a votive or personal