Circa 3rd millennium B.C. A heavy steatite vessel with oval-section body and D-section walls, incised concentric bands to the rim, geometric scheme to the bodyposed of two registers of hatched rectangles populated with X-motifs; four circular piercings to the rim; slightly convex base. 1.29 kg, 12.5 cm high (4 7/8 in.). Ex Jacobs collection, acquired 1980-1982. With Bonham's, London, 16 May 2002, lot 336. With Cahn, Riehen, Switzerland, 19 November 2014, lot 12. Apanied by copies of the relevant Bonham's catalogue pages.