Asia Minor, Western Anatolia, Troy, Yortan culture, Early Bronze Age I-II, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. A sizeable, hand-built pottery vessel with a planar base, a globular body with a rounded shoulder, a tapering neck with a beaked spout, and a slender strap handle arching between the spout and shoulder. A register of raised zigzag motifs courses around the upper body with three points in low relief, and a set of concentric circles surrounds the base of the neck, all formed with a modelling stick. The highly-burnished exterior is covered in a layer of grey slip which exhibits a lustrous glazed appearance. Size: 7" W x 10.375" H (17.8 cm x 26.4 cm).
Related in form and decoration to two Yortan culture jugs of the early 3rd millennium BCE in the Badische Landesmuseum Karisruhe, inv. nos. 84/144, 84/145, see Cat. Karlsruhe - 1997, 34 f., 380, nos. A 51-52 with illus.: also a jug from Kusura, see Bossert - 1942, 23, nos. 124, 13, pl. 20. There are echoes of jugs of this form with similar decoration in Minoan pottery, see Cat. Kassel - 1990, 92, no. 30 with illus.
Accompanied by an Art Loss Register certificate.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection; ex-Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel, Switzerland; ex-private collection of Professor Dr. Heberer, formed since 1974
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Condition
Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, minor surface lesions, minor nicks to spout lip, neck, body, and base, with some areas of fire-darkening, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory label beneath base.