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Tepe Sialk Beaker with Bird Motif
Circa 1st Half of 2nd Millennium BC
Description: Attractive Tepe Sialk dark-on-buff ware beaker featuring four long-legged water fowl, perhaps egrets, painted on the exterior surface in a burnished red-brown color. They stand in profile in a procession facing right. The birds have long necks, sharply pointed beaks and a crest of feathers atop their heads. Delicate strokes painted across the bodies create the illusion of short feathers. A single decorative leafy branch is placed between each of the birds. A wide painted band encircles the composition above and below. An additional double encircling band below. Appealing shape with tapered body and narrow base potted of slightly coarse clay.
Height: 4.25 in. (10.5 cm)
Condition: Intact.
Provenance: Formerly in a European private collection, acquired
prior to December 2001.
Reference: See Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection (New York 1992) by Trydy S. Kawami, nos. 13 for a variant of the type.
Background: Buff ware with dark painted decoration, such as this example, are characteristic of the central and southern areas of ancient Iran in the 2nd Millennium BC. Rows of various types of birds were a particularly popular motif. Waterfowl are known to have been an important source of food during this early period.
Price: $ 1,800
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