Bowl with Lug
2500-2000 BCE
Description
Red-polished II black-topped ware
Dimensions
9 x 16 cm (3 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Penha Collection, Cyprus. Stuart Cary Welch, Warner, NH (by 1954), transfer; to the Edith I. Welch 2004 Trust (2008-2016), transfer; to The Welch Family Holdings, LLC, Thomas C. Welch, Manager, Cambridge, MA (2016-2023), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums. Note: Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008). Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Harvard Art Museums (1976-2008) and Special Consultant in charge of the department of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1979-1987.)
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