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LOT 2046
Ban Chiang Period Painted Vessel
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
51/2 in. (430 grams, 14 cm wide).
Globular jar with large flared mouth, decorated with dense series of hatched spiral motifs. [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 in Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002.
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