An Egyptian alabaster cosmetic jar
Early Dynastic Period, circa 3400-2980 B.C.
The globular body on a small flaring foot, with a short cylidrical neck, and rounded everted rim, 5.4cm high注脚Provenance:
Caroline Ransom Williams (1872-1952) collection; gifted to the Toledo Museum of Art in 1943.
Toledo Museum of Art, acc. no. 1943.50.
The Toledo Sale; Harlan J. Berk, Chicago, 2017, lot 127.

Caroline Ransom Williams was a classical archaeologist, and the first American woman to be professionally trained as an Egyptologist. Williams was an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College, PA, assistant curator of the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, honorary curator at the Toledo Museum of Art, lecturer in Egyptian art at the University of Michigan, and cataloguer of several major institutional collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.