The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Cone-shaped vase with geometric decoration

Cone-shaped vase with geometric decoration

Period:: Chalcolithic
Date:: ca. late 5th millennium B.C.
Geography:: Iran, Tall-i Bakun A
Medium:: Ceramic, paint
Dimensions:: 8.12 in. (20.62 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund and Gifts of Lucy W. Drexel, Theodore M. Davis, Helen Miller Gould, Albert Gallatin, Egypt Exploration Fund and Egyptian Research Account, by exchange, 1950
Accession Number:: 51.25.22

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 402

Provenance

1932, excavated by the Persian Expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; ceded to the Oriental Institute in the division of finds; acquired by the Museum in 1950, through an exchange of objects with the Oriental Institute
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What
Ceramics (29,315)

Vessels (21,644)

Vases (8,876)

Cone (25)
Where
Asia (68,010)

Iran (7,061)
When
8000-2000 B.C. (3,806)
In the Museum
Ancient Near Eastern Art (6,167)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Iran, 8000–2000 B.C.