Ca. 660-525 BC. A 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 Wedjat-Eye - Eye of Horus, a sign of prosperity and protection. 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:61.2mm / W:44.1mm ; 37gProvenance: From the collection of a London gentleman, acquired from a Belgium collector in 2006; formerly in an old French collection since the 1960s.