Object Details
- Description
- Shallow bowl with flat base one ring handle, the end of which terminates in a trilobed form. The handle has a three-pronged projection above it (thumb rest?) and is decorated with incised lines along the ring. A small hole goes through the bottom of the ring and three rows of incised zig-zag lines below it. Deep, wide burnishing, over all surfaces, covered with a brown slip.
- Label
- Scientifically excavated ceramics from Iron Age northern Iran are very few, but an impression of the typical forms and styles of the period can be gained from excavations at the site of Ghalekuti, on the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea. Here, graves produced ceramics mostly orange in color and unburnished; bowls are simple, shallow forms with a single elaborate handle, as in this example.
- Provenance
- To 1965
- Galerie Israel, Tel Aviv, to 1965 [1]
- From 1965 to 1995
- Frank and Joan Mount, Alexandria, VA, purchased from Galerie Israel in 1965
- From 1995
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Frank and Joan Mount in 1995
- Notes:
- [1] According to Provenance Remark 1 in the object record.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Metalwork and Ceramics from Ancient Iran (November 19, 1992 to January 22, 2004)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Galerie Israel
- Frank and Joan Mount
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 800-500 BCE
- Period
- Iron Age III
- Credit Line
- Gift of Joan and Frank Mount
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 5 x 22.5 x 18.3 cm (1 15/16 x 8 7/8 x 7 3/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
