An Urartian or Amlash pottery shoe rhyton

An Urartian or Amlash pottery shoe rhyton Circa 9th-7th Century B.C. 20.5cm long Footnotes: Provenance: with Jurgen Haering - Galerie am Museum, Freiburg. Property from a Princely Collection, acquired from the above prior to 2006. Drinking vessels in the form of boots originated in the early 2nd Millennium B.C. in Anatolia. These earliest forms are distinguished by their turned-up toes, and highly decorated painted surface (see the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no. 67.182.2). In the early 1st Millennium B.C. a more naturalistic form emerged in northwestern Iran/northeastern Anatolia, and have traditionally been attributed to the Urartian culture based on the few excavated examples, though these excavated examples are usually of a black burnished material. For further, see D. von Bothmer (ed.), Glories of the Past, Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection, New York, 1990, p. 33, no. 20. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: R R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing