NEAR EASTERN ANTHROPOMORPHIC POTTERY VESSEL. Ca. 2000 - 1000 BC A pottery vessel with a tall conical body above a sharply carinated lower section tapering to a small flat base. The exterior is covered with a red slip and terminates above in a pinched mouth modelled as a schematic human head framed by black painted hair, with large eyes, prominent nose and red cheek patches. The neck is encircled by a collar of large cream roundels within dark borders, with a similar frieze around the widest part of the body. Size: 310mm x 150mm; Weight: 1.15kg. Provenance: Private London collection; acquired in Germany; formerly with C. E. Schultze collection, Munich, late 1980s.