Vessel with lug handle

Object Details

• Description

  Squat, round bottomed earthenware vessel. Its wide-mouthed opening is surrounded by a slightly flared rim. There is one handle along the widest part of the shoulder. Slightly lumpy form and roughness on the interior where the rim joins the body of the vessel suggests that the objects was hand-built.

  The unglazed, burnished surface is mostly dark gray in color, with some uneveness due to firing, burial environment and wear.

• Provenance

  From the early to mid-1960s

  Gladys Scott, acquired in Iran in the early to mid-1960s [1]

  To 1997

  Kathryn Scott Kubichek, Blairstown, Iowa, by descent from Gladys Scott, to 1997

  From 1997

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Kathryn Scott Kubichek and Clarence Kubichek in 1997

  Notes:

  [1] According to Provenance Note 1 in the object record.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Gladys Scott

  Kathryn Scott Kubichek (American, 1919-2008)

  Clarence Kubichek (1916-2008)

• Origin

  Northwest Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Kathryn and Clarence Kubichek in memory of Gladys Scott

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  BCE 0s, 200s

• Name

  Scott, Gladys, Kubichek, Kathryn Scott, Kubichek, Clarence

• Topic

  Parthian period (247 BCE - 224 CE), Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)