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Hacilar Region, Middle Chalcolithic, c. 5000 BC
Height: 15 cm
Provenance: Collection of Elsa Bloch-Diener, Bern, acquired 1970s
Of biconical form, with slightly pointed shoulders, straight cylindrical neck and circular rim. Painted on the neck and shoulders in burnished red with bold zigzagging stripes and triangles, the rounded base left bare.
Condition: Two cracks from rim to mid belly secured and filled. Small area of restoration to rim.
This comes with a thermoluminescence test report from Oxford Authentication confirming its antiquity.
Hacilar was a prehistoric settlement in Southwest Turkey, the earliest periods of occupation dating to the early 8th millennium BC. Excavation of this important site took place in the late 1950s under the direction of James Mellaart, the eminent British archaeologist responsible for the discovery of Çatalhöyük. His work at the site revealed similar decoration in the houses to that seen on these characteristic vessels; geometric patterns in red, often burnished, paint on a cream slip.
Literature: For the shape, compare a similar vessel sold Christie’s, New York, 11 December 2003, lot 95 (price realised $23,900). See also an example in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number 64.286.5).
Hacilar Region, Middle Chalcolithic, c. 5000 BC
Height: 15 cm
Provenance: Collection of Elsa Bloch-Diener, Bern, acquired 1970s
Of biconical form, with slightly pointed shoulders, straight cylindrical neck and circular rim. Painted on the neck and shoulders in burnished red with bold zigzagging stripes and triangles, the rounded base left bare.
Condition: Two cracks from rim to mid belly secured and filled. Small area of restoration to rim.
This comes with a thermoluminescence test report from Oxford Authentication confirming its antiquity.
Hacilar was a prehistoric settlement in Southwest Turkey, the earliest periods of occupation dating to the early 8th millennium BC. Excavation of this important site took place in the late 1950s under the direction of James Mellaart, the eminent British archaeologist responsible for the discovery of Çatalhöyük. His work at the site revealed similar decoration in the houses to that seen on these characteristic vessels; geometric patterns in red, often burnished, paint on a cream slip.
Literature: For the shape, compare a similar vessel sold Christie’s, New York, 11 December 2003, lot 95 (price realised $23,900). See also an example in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number 64.286.5).