Amlash Marlik Blackware Spouted Strainer Jug, TL'd

**Originally Listed At $500** Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hand-built and stone-burnished blackware vessel of sizable form with an apple-shaped body, a cylindri

Holy Land Pottery Spouted Strainer Jug, Hebron, Iron Age, ca. 800 BCE.Rarely a vessel intended not only to contain a liquid, but also to filter it. The jug was wheel turned, while the handle and the s

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Early to Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2800 to 2000 BCE. A splendid and rather sizable blackware jug featuring a voluminous body w

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash culture, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. A tall and substantive pottery pitcher exhibiting a tall piriform body, a corseted necklace, a thick str

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Meshkinshar, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BCE. An enormous, hand-built blackware pottery jar that was perhaps used as a siza

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash, ca. mid to late 3rd millennium BCE. A hand-built and stone-burnished pottery pitcher of impressive size exhibiting a planar base, an apple-shaped body wit

Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Amlash, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A burnished redware pottery bowl with a petite conical spout emanating off one side. Opposite the spout is a thick ring handle with a

**Originally Listed At $800** Ancient Near East, Amlash, ca. 1400 to 1000 BCE. A robust brownware with a long-spouted pitcher bearing a form resembling a graceful bird with a long beak and a curving n

Iron Age, 12th-9th century BC. A bulbous ceramic vessel with basal ring, tubular neck with raised vertical rim, strap handle, U-section spout with perforations; horizontal black and red bands to the b

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash region, Marlik culture, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A hand-built pottery pitcher of broad, apple-shaped form with a petite base and a narrow

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Meshginshahr, Amlash / Marlik culture, Bronze Age to Iron Age, ca. 3000 to 600 BCE. An impressive blackware dish, the exter

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hand-built blackware pottery jug exhibiting lustrous surfaces due to its stone-burnished surfaces. The spout rises and flar

Iran, c. 1st millennium BC - 7th C. BC Ceramic, 25 cm Provenance: Count Maurice D'Arquian (1908 - 1975), Brussels Colette Ghysels collection, Brussels Superb zoomorphic ritual libation vessel from the

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Casa Grande, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 900 BCE. A rare example of a hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a seated shaman smoking a pipe. The detailing on t

18th century Pewter-mounted Dutch (likely) Faience spouted jug, painted blue and white, outlines in black, floral motif with birds, a monogrammed armorial with crown 'M.E.O 1720'. Hallmarks on lid, Po

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Meshkinshar, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BCE. A hand-built and stone-burnished blackware pottery jar of broad, spherical fo

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An intriguing blackware stirrup vessel with an incised motif and high relief anthropomorphic figure with a bird. The vessel has a flat ba

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin / Cupisnique, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. A beautiful blackware libation bowl with a simple, elegant motif of repeated concentric circles. The rim bends very gently inw

Greece, Cyprus, Archaic Period, ca. 7th century BCE. A pottery jug with a high, curving handle, a narrow, conical spout projecting from one side, and a narrow neck leading to a flared rim. The body is

A large Early Bronze Age spouted jug, c. 3000 BC, with a rich red original slip remaining, the entirety of the body decorated with a netting pattern. Two loop handles are on both sides of the body, si

Iran, Amlash / Marlik, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A rare and delightful miniature bronze chariot group with two horses pulling the chariot. Each figure is simply yet completely defined. The wheels of the c

A Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Valley Sican Chimu circa 1000-1450 AD burnished blackware spouted bottle vase or vessel in the shape of a melon with an anthropomorphic bird stop pecking at it, having incis

**Originally Listed At $2500** Central Asia, Persia, Gilan, Marlik / Cheragh-Ali Tepe, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. A beautiful and rare terracotta pitcher of magnificent size, intricately adorned with

Ancient Near East/Asia Minor, Anatolia, Yortan culture, Early Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2400 BCE. An enormous wheel-thrown pottery jug with a trio of conical feet, a spherical body with a tapered sho