Ca. 660-525 BCAn interesting faience New Year's flask of a lentoid body with twin arched handles flanking the trumpet-shaped spout. One side is decorated with a large rosette and the other with a lotus flower. This kind of flasks may once have been filled with perfume, oil, or water from the Nile, and it would have been a gift associated with the festive season at the beginning of the new year when the Nile began to flood.Size: L:59.7mm / W:42.2mm ; 37.85gProvenance: Acquired from a Belgium collector in 2006; formerly in an old French collection since the 1960s.