Vase
CultureAncient Near Eastern
Datelate 3rd millennium B.C.E.
MediumTerracotta with paint
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (26.04 × 27.31 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-37/8
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 103
Collections
Gallery LabelThe animal in the middle of the vase has been almost fully converted into an elegant and finely detailed abstract pattern.
Tepe Giyan, Nihavand [1];
With Nejat Rabbi, Tehran, by 1934;
Purchased from Rabbi by Arthur Upton Pope (1881-1969), 1934-1935;
Purchased from Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
NOTES:
[1] According to Nejat Rabbi, invoice to NAMA, April 30, 1934, NAMA curatorial files.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 108.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 4.
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