Spouted vessel with loop handle

Object Details

• Description

  Small, thick-walled vessel with wide, slightly out-turned rim, gently carinated body, flat base, round mouth. A loop handle joins the rim and shoulder. Opposite the handle, a pointed tubular spout is attached also to the rim by a short "bridge." The shoulder area is decorated with incised zigszags and what appear to be two rows of fingernail impressed patterns. At the base of the handle and spout are small applied pellets. The surface is light reddish brown. Protrusions or added bumps of clay have been modelled below the spout and the handle, presumably in imitation of metalwork (rivetting). Very thick burial dirt/deposists all over the surface obscure details.

• 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

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Kathryn and Clarence Kubichek in memory of Gladys Scott

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

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• Name

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

• Topic

  Iron Age III (ca. 800 - 500 BCE), Bridges, Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Iron Age II (ca. 1250 - 800 BCE), Ceramics

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)