An Early Parthian pottery bull askos
An Early Parthian pottery bull askos
Iran or eastern Azerbaijan, circa late 1st Millennium B.C.
The head with incised eyes, snout and mouth, small pointed ears and short curved horns, a long tail running down the back of the barrel-shaped body, with a spout and strap handle in the centre of the back, flanked by amphorae or saddlebags, details in painted red including a harness and spiral design on the saddlebags, 31cm long, 19cm high
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Private American collection, housed in Switzerland, from ca. 1960's, until July 2005.
Cf. a vessel in the form of a recumbent camel, with similar saddlebags, dating to the Parthian period, reproduced in T.S. Kawami, Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1992, no. 82, p. 203.
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An Early Parthian pottery bull askos
Iran or eastern Azerbaijan, circa late 1st Millennium B.C.
The head with incised eyes, snout and mouth, small pointed ears and short curved horns, a long tail running down the back of the barrel-shaped body, with a spout and strap handle in the centre of the back, flanked by amphorae or saddlebags, details in painted red including a harness and spiral design on the saddlebags, 31cm long, 19cm high
Provenance:
Private American collection, housed in Switzerland, from ca. 1960's, until July 2005.
Cf. a vessel in the form of a recumbent camel, with similar saddlebags, dating to the Parthian period, reproduced in T.S. Kawami, Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1992, no. 82, p. 203.
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