Spouted Vessel

Place of OriginPersia, from region around Amlash

Date1000-750 BCE

Dimensionswith spout: 7 3/8 × 14 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (18.7 × 36.8 × 14 cm)
without spout: 6 1/4 × 6 × 5 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (15.9 × 15.2 × 14.3 × 8.9 cm)
Rim: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)

MediumBurnished earthenware

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1987.200

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

DescriptionApplied handle-spout

Label TextThis sophisticated vessel was created on a wooden potter’s wheel. The handle-spout was applied after the base was made, and then the entire vessel was fired in a kiln and burnished. Such fine pottery pieces were often included in wealthy graves to accompany the dead into the afterlife.Published ReferencesKawami, Trudy S., Ancient Iranian ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1992, p. 104, repr. p. 103.Comparative ReferencesSee also Schmidt, E.F., Excavations at Tepe Hissar, Damghan, Philadelphia, 1937, pp. 212, 216, pls LX (for a related stone vessel from Tepe Hissar).

cf. Fukai, S., Persian Ceramics, Tokyo, 1984, pp. 217-222.

cf. Muscarella, Oscar White, "The Iron Age at Dinkha Tepe, Iran," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, vol. 9, 1974, p. 47, fig. 16, no. 269, and p. 46 (for an excavated vessel with cross hatching on its underside similar to 1987.200)