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LOT 0200

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GBP (£) 1,200 - 1,700
EUR (€) 1,450 - 2,050
USD ($) 1,510 - 2,140

Current bid: £600 (+bp*)
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(1 Bid, Reserve not met)   |   Current bid: £600
BACTRIAN DECORATED STONE VESSEL
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/8 in. (305 grams, 85 mm wide).

Drum-shaped with squared rim, sidewall with reserved decoration in three registers, hatched panels to the rim above stepped geometric forms above vertical ribbing.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired before 1983.
Ex London gallery, 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Aruz, J. ed., Art Of The First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p.326, for similar.

CONDITION
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