An intact Luristan pottery tripod vessel, North Iran, circa 2000-1,500 B.C., with...

An intact Luristan pottery tripod vessel,

North Iran, circa 2000-1,500 B.C.,

with concave sides and a single pierced side loop at the out-turned rim, the white washed surface decorated in added reddish-brown slip with cross-hatched lozenges, triangles forming an axe and vertical stripes, North Iran, circa 2000-1,500 B.C., 12cm 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. 21.

For a similar type please see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1947-0501-466