Terracotta Bowl from Çatalhöyük

Culture: Çatalhöyük

Period: around 6000 B.C.

Material: Terracotta

Dimensions: 16 cm in diameter

Price: Sold

Ref: 6620

Provenance: Austrian private collection Professor Josef Mairitsch (1938-1994) with the inventory number 4. Acquired between 1960 and the early 1980s. Thence in the family estate. With a copy of the collection note.

Condition: Unrestored and uncleaned. The base with encrustations. On one side flaking of the slip and paint and some wear on the rim. Nevertheless one of very few intact vessels from Çatalhöyük.

Description: Important, unrestored bowl from the Neolithic hill in Çatalhöyük, the first large settlement in world history. The thick-walled vessel formed by hand stands on a flattened base, which protrudes and merges into the cylindrical wall. The rim is slightly curved outwards and rounded. The vessel is covered with a beige slip and painted from the rim to the base with thick at the bottom converging red bands. The inside wall of the bowl is painted in red. An impressive testimony of early ceramic art in Çatalhöyük.