Western Asiatic Glazed Juglet and Dish. 8th-7th century BC. A pottery set comprising a small juglet, with straight neck, a ridge where the neck meets the shoulder through a handle and an oval rhomboid body; a dish with low raised base; both with blue-green glaze, off-white and orange with orange green edged triangles on the shoulders of the juglet and cross motifs on both sides of the dish, glazed in orange with green-blue edges, both decorated with dots.See a jar in similar glazed-pottery from Kalah Shergat in the British Museum, Splendours of Mesopotamia, London, 2011, p.123, cat.92.275 grams total, 6.6-13cm (2 1/2 - 5"). From an important London W1, gallery; previously acquired 1970s-1980s.Assyrian control of small kingdoms of the Levant during the Neo-Assyrian Empire opened new trade routes. Recent finds in Khirbat al-Mudayna included fine glazed ceramics, bottles and a collection of alabaster, calcite, steatite and faience cosmetic vessels. [2, No Reserve]