An Egyptian glazed steatite dish
New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 B.C.
Blue-green in colour, the shallow bowl with low circular moulded foot, with two handles, one lozenge-shaped, the other in the form of a lion's head, the mane and face with incised details, 12cm diam.注脚Provenance:
Reverend William MacGregor (1848-1937) collection, London.
Private collection, France.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 21 October 1999, lot 467 (part lot).
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

The missing rim fragment of this bowl is currently at the Bolton Museum, inv. no. 1992.8.133. The Bolton fragment was lot 135 of the 1922 Sotheby's auction of the MacGregor collection, and was purchased by Spink (who were also the owners at this time), who later sold it to the Tamworth Castle Museum, before it passed to the Bolton Museum.