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LOT 1982

Ban Chiang Period Painted Tall Vase

MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.

13 3/4 in. (3.25 kg, 35 cm).

With flared rim, globular body and trumpet-shaped base; red-on-buff decoration in the form of curvilinear meandering lines on a hatched field. [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 Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002, for type.

CONDITION

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LOT 1982

Ban Chiang Period Painted Tall Vase

Sold for (Inc. bp): £247

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