Description:

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Middle Bronze Age, ca. first half of the 2nd millennium BCE. An impeccable example of ancient pottery! A marvelous blackware kernos or cult altar boasting a voluminous, spherical body with 3 bowl-shaped spouts surrounding the flared rim, all sitting upon a planar base. The exterior is embellished by liberal remains of glazed lattice motif decoration, as well as striated and undulating designs the complement its bulbous form. The spouts are placed in a triangular form around the bulging neck with 1 on one side and 2 on the other. Size: 11.5" W x 8.8" H (29.2 cm x 22.4 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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#181351

  • Condition: Professionally repaired with some restoration over break lines and to rim - all done very well and difficult to notice. Some small nicks and abrasions to surface as shown. Otherwise, excellent presentation with liberal remains of painted decoration and impressive preservation of form.

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