An intact Amlash cup, North Iran, late 2nd Millennium – early 1st...

An intact Amlash cup,

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

Thin-walled and evenly potted, with ring handle and conical base, of pale pinkish-orange clay covered with a red slip and burnished, wheel-made, 6cm. 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, 1999, no. 19.