Antiquities - ancient Hasanlu painted pottery bowl

Hasanlu painted pottery bowl

£100

A buff pottery bowl or drinking cup with painted geometric decoration around the shoulder and rim.

North West Iran, Hasanlu culture, mid 2nd Millennium BC

A few small chips on the edge of the rim otherwise intact

Size: 8.1 x 10 cms.

Ex. collection: Sir Denis Wright, 1911-2005. British Ambassador to Iran, 1963-1971, during which period this item was acquired.

Sir Denis was chairman of the Iran Society (1976-79) and president of the British Institute of Persian Studies (1978-87). He wrote several scholarly articles and books including The English Amongst The Persians (1977) and The Persians Amongst The English (1985); he donated a number of Iranian antiquities to British Institutions, some of which are now on display in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Early Iranian pottery remains an under-studied and also an under-valued field of antiquity. The vast territory of modern Iran was home to a large number of inter-dependent but autonomous cultures during the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, and several of these cultures produced highly refined ceramic wares. The bronze work of the Luristan and Amlash cultures are well known but the pottery-based cultures still remain shrouded in mystery due to the lack of site excavation and publication of finds.

Many of the pottery shapes and styles of decoration visible in Iranian art can also be seen in early Anatolian and Mediterranean pottery; their artistic similarities are testimony to a much wider cultural influence and trade interaction which has yet to be properly researched.

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