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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]
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 Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002, for type.
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