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LOT 0200

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.

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LOT 0200

Bactrian Decorated Stone Vessel

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235

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