A Luristan waisted footed vase Circa late 2nd – early 1st Millennium...

A Luristan waisted footed vase

Circa late 2nd – early 1st Millennium B.C.,

in pale buff pottery with concave neck and out-turned rim, brown painted geometric decoration on the neck and sloping shoulder, consisting of encircling bands and vertical strokes, short diagonal strokes on the neck indicating foliage, circa late 2nd – early 1st Millennium B.C., 12.7cm high

Provenance:

UK private collection; acquired by the vendor in 1963 in Iran.

Published:

S. Middleton, A Preliminary Identification and Tentative Chronology for A Small Collection of Ceramics from Iran (Oxford 1999), no. 2.