Object Details
- Description
- A hanging bottle, made of buff gray/yellow earthenware. At the top of the vessel, the narrow neck widens and then narrows again, then turns out to a thin, out-turned rim with a carinated ridge and small, pierced lug handles which rise up vertically. The main body is bulbous, and tapers to a pointed hole/spout at exactly the bottom of the vessel. There is a geometric design incised on the upper shoulder and neck of the vessel, comprised of concentric registers of zig-zags. A head of a stylized animal wearing a collar, with triangular ears, oval eyes and an open mouth with a visible tongue protrudes perpendicular to the spout, the animal's mouth opening downward. The fine clay has been scraped down and slightly burnished.
- In very good-excellent condition. Two fragments have been broken off the side of the animal head and stuck back with adhesive. Scattered spalls, firing flaws, accretions.
- 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
- Previous custodian or owner
- Victor and Takako Hauge
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1800-1200 BCE
- Credit Line
- Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 20.1 x 10.4 x 11 cm (7 15/16 x 4 1/8 x 4 5/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
