South Caucasus / Near East

Wrapped Terracotta Ceramic Vessel

Wrapped Terracotta Vessel

c. 3rd–2nd millennium BCE · Early to Middle Bronze Age

An Early to Middle Bronze Age terracotta vessel (c. 3rd–2nd millennium BCE) from the South Caucasus, its warm reddish-brown body encased in a surviving organic mesh of wide flat ribbons — a sophisticated ornamental harness whose asymmetric, multi-tiered geometric palimpsest balances chaotic expressionism with a central horizontal anchor band.