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LOT 1952
Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
8 1/2 in. (1.05 kg, 21.5 cm).
Red-on-buff chalice with everted rim, globular body and trumpet-shaped base; surface decorated with concentric ovoids, arches and spiral motifs. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From 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.
Literature
See, Labbe, A., Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspective, Bangkok, 2002, p.50, no.74, pl.74, for type.
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