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Provenance:
with Elsa Bloch-Diener, Bern, acquired in the 1970s.
Anonymous sale: Chiswick Auctions, Antiquities & Tribal Art, 14 June 2017, lot 181.
Accompanied by an Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence certificate.
For the type, cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, obj. nos 64.286.5 & 63.108.
Hacilar was a prehistoric settlement in Southwest Turkey, the earliest periods of occupation dating to the late 8th Millennium B.C. Excavation of this important site took place in the late 1950s under the direction of James Mellaart, the eminent British archaeologist responsible for the discovery of Çatalhöyük. His work at the site revealed similar decoration in the houses to that seen on these characteristic vessels with geometric patterns in red, often burnished and painted on a ground of cream slip. For a discussion on Hacilar, fifty years on from Mellaart's discovery, see M. Brami & V. Heyd, The origins of Europe's first farmers: the role of Hacılar and Western Anatolia, fifty years on. Praehistorische Zeitschrift (Berlin) 86/2, 2011, p.165-206.