EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A PERSIAN BURNISHED GREY POTTERY TRIPOD STAND
EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
The feet conjoined by three openwork arches, the central one of twisted rope pattern, the shoulder with encircling double row of notches, 10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high; a Persian dark grey pottery globular jar with single handle, the shoulder decorated with incised lines, 1st millennium B.C., 10¼ in. (26 cm.) high; a West Persian pottery tripod jar, decorated with red painted cross-hatched triangles and diamonds, with a cross-hatched vertical column extending up each tripod foot to the rim, early 2nd millennium B.C., 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high; and a Persian black-on-red pottery bowl, the exterior with black painted quadruple zigzag lines with pendant linear motifs, the interior with similar linear decoration, 5th-early 4th millennium B.C., 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam., both repaired (4)

Provenance

Acquired in the 1960s (items one and two were acquired together).

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Lot Essay

Item one: cf. T. S. Kawami, Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1992, p. 24, fig. 26 for a similar tripod stand from Hasanlu, now in The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

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