4th-3rd millennium BC. A ceramic stemmed cup or chalice with carinated upper body, gently everted rim and splayed stem and foot; the upper body painted with a circumferential frieze of stylised antelopes separated by panels of vertical lines with bulbous bases, a coloured band to the rim, a series of concentric bands below, populated with hatched panels, a painted band to the junction between bowl and stem, clusters of vertical lines running to the foot below. See Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Iran; Tepe Sialk; large footed cup with decoration of wild goats, The Avery Brundage Collection, B60P469, for similar; see The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 48.98.3, for very similar painted motifs. 915 grams, 22cm (8 3/4"). From a central London gallery; previously on the London, UK, art market, 1983; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by IADAA certificate number no.14042020/1140.