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LOT 2072
Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
9 5/8 in. (2.13 kg, 24.5 cm high).
With globular upper body and everted rim, trumpet-shaped foot; decorated with series of interlocking spiral motifs and radiating lines to the foot. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
See Labbe, A., Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002.
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