Two Egyptian copper vessels
Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 1069-525 B.C.
The high-necked bowl with rounded shoulder and small everted rim, a hieroglyphic text on the slightly concave neck reading 'this is the royal mirror'; the jar of slim convex form decorated with a wedjet eye below the rim, 14.5cm and 12.5cm diam. respectively (2)注脚Provenance:
L Föhr collection, Niederdollendorf.
Anonymous sale; Lempertz Auction, Cologne, 21 November 1967, lots 77 and 78.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

Egypt had abundant resources of copper in the Eastern Desert, however its popularity increased from the 18th Dynasty onwards, and additional supplies had to be imported from Syria and Western Asia.

The shape of the high-necked bowl first appears in the New Kingdom, although the style may be derived from Third Dynasty stone prototypes. For a similarly shaped bowl in bronze, see an example from Dra abu el Naga in Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1982, no. 103. The text on this bowl may be a joke, referring to how the face of the bowl's user would be reflected once the vessel was filled with liquid.