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LOT 2269
Ban Chiang Period Painted Terracotta Chalice
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
6 3/4 in. (871 grams, 17 cm).
Red-on-buff chalice with flared rim, globular body and wide pedestal base; surface decorated with horizontal bands of curvilinear geometric patterns and vertical strokes to the shoulder. [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.
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