Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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A Large Persian Pottery Jar, circa late 3rd/early 2nd Millennium B.C.

Lot Closed

July 5, 12:14 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Large Persian Pottery Jar

circa late 3rd/early 2nd Millennium B.C.


with ring foot and rounded body, the slightly convex sloping shoulder painted in brown over a buff slip with two voluminous ibexes standing between stylized vegetation, an encircling register of wavy bands below, panels of vertical straight and wavy lines above the foot.

Height 30 cm.

Christie’s, London, July 5th, 1995, no. 104, illus.
Japanese private collection
acquired by the present owner from the above in 2016