
Siobhan Quin
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£6,000 - £8,000
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Provenance:
English private collection of Captain George Fenwick-Owen, acquired in Alexandria in the 1920s; thence by descent.
English private collection by descent from the above.
Reeman Dansie Auctioneers & Valuers, Colchester, Essex, 14 February 2012, lot 25.
with Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired at the above auction.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams London, Antiquities, 2 October 2014, lot 20 (unsold).
Sotheby's London, Tomasso: The More a Thing is Perfect, 29 April 2021, lot 11.
Acquired by the present owner at the above auction.
There are related examples of faience hedgehog aryballoi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, obj.nos.41.162.92 & 41.162.94. Such hedgehog aryballoi are of an East Greek type, but have been found in the Greek trading colony of Naucratis, Egypt, a vibrant trading post and the first and only permanent Greek settlement in Egypt.