AN AMLASH TERRACOTTA SPOUTED VESSEL
Presumably Amlash culture, Iran, circa 1000 BC. The rounded body with raised knobs below the lip, a large beaked spout at the rim embellished with a stag head at the top, the base flat with two short conical feet exposed at the front.

Condition: Traces of wear consistent with age and use, small losses, restorations to the spout and stag and some touch-ups.
Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. Istvan Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.

Weight: 733 g
Dimensions: Length 32.5 cm, Height 12 cm