Object Details
- Description
- A small, modeled, hand built, vase with a rounded body and a flat base. The body tapers to a narrow neck, and then flares out to a round rim. Made of a buff earthenware, the vessel is decorated in dark red/brown horizontal bands above and beneath cross hatched chevrons.
- Intact except for one chip missing from the rim. Scattered dirt/deposits, some brown staining on one side, with small "islands" of white salt deposits. Scattered wear/loss of slip painted decoration.
- Label
- Cemeteries and settlements in the Luristan region of western Iran have yielded examples of a distinctive painted ceramic style dating to the Iron II-III period (ca. 1000-600 B.C.E.). Often called "Genre Luristan," this pottery is also known as "Baba Jan III Painted Ware" after Baba Jan Tepe, a large settlement where it was extensively excavated during the 1960s. In this example, the radiating pattern of the multiple painted bands effectively echoes the swelling volume of the vessel.
- Other examples of "Genre Luristan" ceramics in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are S1987.99 and S1998.22.
- Provenance
- From at least 1965 to 1998
- Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]
- From 1998
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 1998
- Notes:
- [1] Object record.
- Acquired in Tehran.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Asian Traditions in Clay: The Hauge Gifts (October 29, 2000 to April 22, 2001)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Victor and Takako Hauge
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 1000-600 BCE
- Period
- Iron Age II - III
- Credit Line
- Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x Diam (overall): 11.1 x 12.2 cm (4 3/8 x 4 13/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
