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LOT 2066
Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
10 1/2 in. (2.6 kg, 27 cm).
Broad bowl with flared rim atop a trumpet-shaped base, all decorated with a dense series of interlocking 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 Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002.
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