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Egyptian

Medium/Technique Faience
Dimensions Diameter x Length: 1.5 x 2.4 cm (9/16 x 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Hay Collection—Gift of C. Granville Way
Accession Number72.1627
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DescriptionModel food. It has a brilliant blue glaze on a clay base. It is solid. It is mottled. The surface is polished.
ProvenanceBy 1836: Robert Hay Collection, Linplum, Scotland; 1863: to his son, Robert James Alexander Hay; 1868-1872: Way Collection,Boston (purchased by Samuel A. Way through London dealers Rollin and Feuardent, 27 Haymarket); 1872: given to the MFA by Samuel's son, C. Granville Way.
(Accession date: June 28, 1872)