A group of Amlash and Iranian pottery 
North Iran, late 2nd – mid 1st Millennium B.C.
comprising...

A group of Amlash and Iranian pottery 

North Iran, late 2nd – mid 1st Millennium B.C.

comprising a large intact Amlash grey pottery flask, of globular form with tall cylindrical neck flaring towards the rim, a small ring handle joins the neck to the shoulder, impressed and incised decoration around the lower neck and shoulder, 24.5cm. high; An intact Amlash grey pottery jug, with rope design to neck, quite thick-walled but evenly potted with a wide, cone-shaped neck, raised ridge running round the base of the neck where it joins the body decorated with thick vertical grooves either impressed or incised, wheel-made, 19.2cm. high; An intact Amlash orange-brown pottery vessel, with globular body, out-turned rim and a horizontal looped handle at the shoulder, 8.5cm high; An intact North Iranian grey pottery hemispherical trough-spouted bowl, fine light grey, smooth body with patches or iron stain, almost hemispherical, evenly potted and with a slightly convex flattened area on the base, the rim of the vessel is slightly turned in, 15.2cm. diam x 7.3cm. high; An intact grey pottery globular flask, with funnel neck and side loop handle, decorated with small impressed strokes around the shoulder, 15.7cm high; An intact buff pottery cup with ring handle, the umber decoration on a buff-coloured background is arranged in horizontal panels divided by parallel encircling bands, 10.1cm  high; and An intact dark grey pottery jug with rat-tail handle, the long, narrow neck, slightly flared at the rim, the body swells to a broad uneven flat base, late 2nd – early 1st Millennium B.C., 13cm high (7)

Provenance: 

UK private collection; acquired by the vendor in 1963 in Iran.

Published: 

S. Middleton, A Preliminary Identification and Tentative Chronology for A Small Collection of Ceramics from Iran (Oxford 1999), nos. 3; 4.; 6; 7; 8; 9; 11

Note: These works were catalogued in 1968 by Brian Morgan of Bluett & Sons