- Provenance
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From at least 1965 to 1998
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]From 1998
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 1998Notes:
[1] Object record. Acquired in Tehran.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Victor and Takako Hauge (1919-2013, 1923-2015)
- Description
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A hanging bottle, made of buff gray/yellow earthenware. At the top of the vessel, the narrow neck widens and then narrows again, then turns out to a thin, out-turned rim with a carinated ridge and small, pierced lug handles which rise up vertically. The main body is bulbous, and tapers to a pointed hole/spout at exactly the bottom of the vessel. There is a geometric design incised on the upper shoulder and neck of the vessel, comprised of concentric registers of zig-zags. A head of a stylized animal wearing a collar, with triangular ears, oval eyes and an open mouth with a visible tongue protrudes perpendicular to the spout, the animal's mouth opening downward. The fine clay has been scraped down and slightly burnished.
In very good-excellent condition. Two fragments have been broken off the side of the animal head and stuck back with adhesive. Scattered spalls, firing flaws, accretions.
- Collection Area(s)
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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