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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.177.13
Title
Spouted Pot
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
9th-8th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Luristan (Iran)
Period
Iron Age
Culture
Iranian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304131

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast and hammered
Dimensions
9.7 x 23.5 x 11.8 x 0.1 cm (3 13/16 x 9 1/4 x 4 5/8 x 1/16 in.)
Technical Details

Chemical Composition: XRF data from Tracer
Alloy: Bronze
Alloying Elements: copper, tin
Other Elements: lead, iron, silver, antimony, arsenic
K. Eremin, January 2014

Technical Observations: The patina is reddish brown with some black. Green corrosion and light brown encrustations are also present. There is a restoration near the bottom.

The vessel was formed by hammering (raising and sinking) a cast ingot. Because no join is discernible at the juncture of the spout and the body, it is possible that the rough cast was round with an elongated extension for shaping into the spout, and so the spout and body were made in one piece. The handle is a separate piece of hammered sheet metal that was attached to the body with five cotter pins that have hemispherical heads on the exterior. The two lower corner pins have wider strips of metal than the other three.


Carol Snow (submitted 2002)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harry J. Denberg, New York, NY (by 1969), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Harry J. Denberg
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.177.13
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed., Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens: Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes, Harvard Art Museum/Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2014), p. 54

Exhibition History

  • The Art of Luristan, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, 10/04/1970 - 10/29/1970; Chapel Arts Center, Manchester, 11/08/1970 - 12/22/1970
  • 32Q: 3440 Middle East, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/31/2018 - 02/20/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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