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LOT 1139
Elamite Chlorite Vessel with Geometric Decoration
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 in. (157 grams, 68 mm high).
Spool-shaped with a flared rim and splayed foot, the upper body carved with a frieze of combed triangles, two plain bands to the equator, guilloche below.
Provenance
Ex Robin Symes Ancient Art, pre 1999, inventory no.44.
Accompanied by an archaeological report of Dr. Raffaele D’Amato;
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12166.217920.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17.190.106 for a vessel of similar form; cf. the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number AC1995.5.7, for similar guilloche; see also Abbas, A., ‘Reflections on the long-term socioeconomic and political development in the Ram Hormoz Plain, a highland-lowland buffer zone’ in AMIT, 2015, pp.113-148; for discussion on this kind of Proto-Elamite or Elamite Pottery see Kohl, P.L., ‘Carved Chlorite Vessels’ in Expedition Magazine 18,, no.1, September, 1975, pp. 18-31, with examples (fragments) in pp.26-28; Alvarez-Mon, J., Basello G.P. and Wicks Y., The Elamite World,, London and New York, 2018.
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