Lot 155, Auction 4/3/2026: Three Iron Age to Roman Holyland Pottery Pitchers

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Holyland, Iron Age to Roman period, ca. 8th century BCE to 3rd century CE. A group of three pottery pitchers representing utilitarian ceramic forms produced in the ancient Levant from the Iron Age through the Roman period. Each vessel features a rounded body rising from a small foot and a single handle extending from the shoulder to the rim, allowing for controlled pouring of liquids. The pitchers vary slightly in form and surface treatment, including examples with buff, reddish, and grayish slips. Their simple profiles – with globular bodies, short necks, and gently flaring rims – reflect the practical design of everyday vessels used for storing and serving water, wine, or oil in domestic settings. Ceramics of this type were widely produced across the Holyland for daily household use, illustrating the continuity of functional pottery traditions in the eastern Mediterranean over many centuries. Size of tallest: 5.1″ Diameter x 6.6″ H (13 cm x 16.8 cm)

Condition: Beige-colored pitcher has professional restoration to rim; other two are intact. All have chips to rims and nicks and abrasions in areas commensurate with age. Rich earthen deposits and encrustations throughout.

Provenance: Collection of Y. Kayvan, Los Angeles, California, USA, acquired from a Los Angeles, California, USA gallery acquisition dates range from the late 1990s to 2005

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