An Amlash orange-brown pottery flask, North Iran, circa 1st Millennium B.C., with...

An Amlash orange-brown pottery flask,

North Iran, circa 1st Millennium B.C.,

with globular body, tall, slightly flaring neck with side handle and tubular spout emerging from the shoulder, decorated with wide grooves around the neck and the lower parts of the handle and spout, decorated with an incised pattern of pendant triangles drawn with double parallel lines, and diamond shapes below the neck, handle and round the base of the spout, 18 cm. 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. 15.