A TEPE SIALK PAINTED POTTERY SPOUTED VESSEL

CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

A TEPE SIALK PAINTED POTTERY SPOUTED VESSEL
CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
The globular body with long horizontal bridge-spout and strap handle, decorated in reddish-brown, each side with an animal with long curving splayed horns, dotted chequerboard lozenge on one side and below handle, the other side with chequered lozenge, concentric bands of geometric decorations around spout base, cross-hatched lozenges and rays on the spout, neck with dots and chevrons
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland, 1985.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 13 February 2002, lot 383.

Exhibited

Zurich, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau Kartause Ittingen, Vom Euphrat zum Nil: Kunst aus den Alten Agypten und Vorderasien, 1985, no. 43.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Vom Euphrat zum Nil: Kunst aus den Alten Agypten und Vorderasien, Zurich, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau Kartause Ittingen, 1985, no. 43.

For a similar example excavated by Ghirshman at Sialk B., cf. British Museum no. 1937.0410.1. Also cf. P. Amiet, Art of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1980, p. 49, no. 639.

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