A rare Egyptian White Faience Vessel, Hyksos Period, ca. 1600 BCE Jewelry - Rings making this pendant the most

making this pendant the most accurate reproduction ever created

Exhibited:  Workhouse Art Center

The bezel is accentuated by a rope-pattern border and enhanced with gold granulation at the six hexagonal points

The sculpture depicts two players on either side of an enormous ball

and a protruding headdress that mimics an avian crest

A rare Egyptian White Faience Vessel, Hyksos Period, ca. 1600 BCE Jewelry - Rings making this pendant the mostThis rare thistleshaped vessel is executed in white faience and decorated in an umber pigment applied in vertical panels of zigzag motif. Directly beneath the lip is a narrow register of closely spaced vertical strokes, followed by a second band composed of zigzag ornament, a decorative schema seen in small faience wares of the Second Intermediate Period. The vessels refined form and pared ornament suggest it was intended as a votive or personal