An intact North Iranian grey pottery hemispherical trough-spouted bowl, early 1st Millennium...

An intact North Iranian grey pottery hemispherical trough-spouted bowl,

early 1st Millennium B.C.,

fine light grey, smooth body with patches or iron stain, almost hemispherical, evenly potted and with a slightly convex flattened area on the base, the rim of the vessel is slightly turned in, 15.2cm. diam x 7.3cm. 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. 9.