About the Artwork
Painted Jar
between 3500 and 3200 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Painted earthenware
Overall: 7 1/4 × 5 3/4 inches (18.4 × 14.6 cm) Mount (footprint of mount): 6 × 6 inches (15.2 × 15.2 cm)
Ceramics
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, contribution from the J. M. Pincus Foundation
70.656
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Provenance
(Charles Dikran Kelekian)
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Egyptian, Painted Jar, between 3500 and 3200 BCE, painted earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, contribution from the J. M. Pincus Foundation, 70.656.
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