Bowl with handle

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

• Origin

  Northwest Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Joan and Frank Mount

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  BCE 0s

• Name

  Galerie Israel, Mount, Frank and Joan

• Topic

  Iron Age III (ca. 800 - 500 BCE), Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Pottery, Ceramics

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)