Zoomorphic vessel

Object Details

• Description

  An animal shaped vessel hand-built of orange/brown earthenware with modeled details. The surface is smooth and burnished. The neck is high and tubular, with a single strap handle extending from the neck to the rounded, "football shaped" body. The spout is modeled like an animal neck and head, with ears point upward and appliqueed button-like eyes. There is an incised row of inverted "v" decoration down the back of the spout (like a mane) and the back of the handle (like a tail) and there is incised decoration around the base of the neck as well. At the bottom of the vessela are three chubby little feet.

  Two areas of loss at the rim have been filled with a tinted plaster/putty. One of the fills has broken away leaving bits of residue. Scattered wear and abrasion, mostly on one side; firing flaws/burnt out inclusions. Well preserved burnished surface on one side. Overall, in very good condition.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge ((1914-2004) and (1907-2000))

• Provenance

  From circa 1950-1970 to 1998

  Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge [1]

  From 1998

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge in 1998

  Notes:

  [1] Object record.

  Purchased by the Hauges in Tehran between 1950-1970.

• Origin

  Germi, Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  BCE 0s, BCE 1000s

• Name

  Hauge, Osborne and Gratia

• Place

  Germi

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Iranians, Middle Easterners

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)