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LOT 2265
Ban Chiang Period Painted Terracotta Jar
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
8 in. (1.32 kg, 20 cm wide).
Comprising a bulbous body with narrow shoulder, broad neck and everted mouth; band of painted intersecting scrolled tendril motifs reserved against 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 discussion.
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