Tripod vessel with two lugs

Object Details

• Provenance

  To between 1961 and 1965

  Jean Royere, to between 1961 and 1965 [1]

  From between 1961 and 1965 to 1997

  Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. (Vida R.) Stringer Jr., Centreville, VA, given by Jean Royere between 1961 and 1965 [2]

  From 1997

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Mrs. Vida R. Stringer in 1997

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Remark 1, Ann C. Gunter, September 24, 1997, in the object record: "This vessel and several others (S1997.50-54) were given to Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Stringer while he was Commercial Attache with the U.S. Embassy in Iran between 1961 and 1965 by Jean Royere, a French interior designer under contract by the Shah of Iran and friend of Mrs. Stringer's cousin.

  Mr. Royere traveled extensively in Iran, often in the company of his close friends M. and Mme. Roman Ghirshman.

  Among the sites they visited (and where they apparently acquired a number of artifacts) were Hasanlu and Susa.

  A letter from Mr. Stringer to me dated June 2, 1997 provides detail of this collecting (and provenance) history."

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Shaping Clay in Ancient Iran (September 8, 2018 to November 24, 2020)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. and Vida Stringer

• Origin

  Northwest Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Vida R. Stringer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  BCE 0s, BCE 1000s

• Name

  Stringer, Harry and Vida R.

• Topic

  Art, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Iron Age II (ca. 1250 - 800 BCE), Pottery, Iron Age I (ca. 1450 - 1250 BCE), Ceramics

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)