Condition
Mended.
Description
Ground rim; cylindrical neck, tapering toward the body; sloping shoulders; four-sided body, square in cross section, curving in toward the flat bottom. No pontil mark visible. Two rows of four pairs of oblique cut strokes on the neck, pointing downward.
Comments and Comparanda
On vessels with square or polygonal body, see comments for cat. 390. On wheel-cut decoration on Islamic flasks, see comments for cat. 380.
Provenance
1979, Edwin A. Lipps, 1922–1988 (Pacific Palisades, California), donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1979
Bibliography
Unpublished
Exhibitions
None