**Originally Listed At $1500**
Ancient Near East / Ancient Mediterranean, Amlash culture, ca. 1400 to 1000 BCE. A hand-built redware pottery vessel of a grand size exhibiting a flat base, a broadly carinated body, a sloped shoulder, and a squat neck with a flared rim. Protruding from one side of the shoulder is a pinched, trefoil-style pouring spout that was perhaps used to dispense ritual libations during social or funerary ceremonies. Size: 13.85" Diameter x 13.3" H (35.2 cm x 33.8 cm)
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Provenance: private Greenwood Village, Colorado, USA collection, via inheritance; Leota Furlong Agett Persian Pottery collection, acquired in Tehran, Iran in the early 1960s
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Condition
Repair to spout rim, with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Abrasions and small nicks commensurate with age, with light earthen deposits, and a few small spalls, otherwise in excellent condition. Great size and form!