1st millennium BC. A bronze vessel with drum-shaped body with collars and flared base, conical trumpet-shaped mouth and deep U-section spout; shallow decoration to the collars including hatched lines and dots between plain circumferential bands. Cf. British Museum, accession number 128600, for type; and for a similar example Louvre Museum, AO20452; cf. Vanden Berghe, L. and Joffroy, R., Bronzes, Iran-Luristan-Caucase, 1973, pl.X.; cf. V. Sarianidi, Necropolis of Gonur, Athènes, 2007, no.89, p.85. 745 grams, 31cm (12 1/4"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired on the London art market in the 2000s.