Description:

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Middle Bronze Age, ca. first half of the 2nd millennium BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery jar exhibiting a planar base, a wide circular body, a perforated tab handle, a raised, beak-shaped spout with an open top, and a flared rim. Faint panels of horizontal and zigzagging linear motifs are lightly etched across the body to create a feathered motif that, along with the slender spout, imbue the vessel with an overall abstract avian presentation. Size: 13" L x 10.5" W x 8.5" H (33 cm x 26.7 cm x 21.6 cm)

Provenance: private Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA collection, via inheritance; Leota Furlong Agett Persian Pottery collection, acquired in Tehran, Iran in the early 1960s

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#174215

  • Condition: Repair to spout with chips and light adhesive residue along break lines, and repair with possible restoration to smaller areas of body. Abrasions and nicks to body, handle, and spout, with fading to etched linear motifs, light earthen deposits, and fading to dark gray color in scattered areas. Linear motifs are still visible in several areas around the composition. Previous collection label beneath base.

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