An Egyptian banded alabaster squat jar, probably Third Intermediate Period - Late Period, 21st - 27th Dynasty, 1070 - 404 B.C., with broad and flat circular rim above a deeply waisted neck and the round bottom body, 12cm high, 25.5cm diameter Provenance: Private Collection, Oxfordshire. Reputedly brought back from Egypt after World War II Though more substantial in proportion, the shape and distinctive broad rim of the present lot can be compared to a number of surviving Kohl jars of the period. See for example Metropolitan Museum of Art, 16.10.431.An alabaster vessel of probably earlier date but similar convex and broad-rimmed outline was sold at Christie's London, Antiquities, 1 October 2014, lot 9.