Description:

Ancient Near East, Anatolian, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A massive and exceedingly rare polychrome vessel from a culture much better known for its grey schist statues and stelae. The sizeable form presents a bulbous body with a rounded shoulder and ever so slightly rolled rim that sits stably on a flat base. The substantive shoulder is painted with a wide register featuring six birds standing in profile and carefully delineated in red, black, and white against a white ground. They occupy triangular panels formed by double red zigzags, and black cross-hatched sections occupy the alternating inverted triangular panels. Above is a narrow register of repeated angular arrowhead-like motifs in red and black against a white ground. A very special example! Size: 13.75" in diameter x 11.5" H (34.9 cm x 29.2 cm)

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Frances Artuner collection, Belgium, acquired in the 1960s

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#139455

  • Condition: Chips to rim as shown and three TL holes on base. Otherwise intact. Manganese deposits scattered on exterior and very visible on interior of vessel. Expected surface wear with scuffs and pigment loss commensurate with age, but much of the pictorial and decorative program has survived quite well. Nice root marks.

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