Beaker

Object Details

• Description

  Unglazed, gray earthenware vessel with flat base. The sides of the vessel rise steeply toward the flared rim, increasing gradually in circumference. The rim is neatly mirrored at the flared base. The surfaces are smoothed and burnished and other tool marks in evdience. The surface is pitted throughout with small, elongated lacunae which may be the result of an organic component of the temper that burned off in the firing.

• 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

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• Date

  BCE 0s, BCE 1000s

• Name

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

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)