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LOT 1941
Ban Chiang Period Painted Wide Vase
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
9 1/4 in. (2 kg, 22.5 cm high).
Formed as a broad upper bowl with flared rim atop a bell-shaped base; upper bowl decorated with running guilloche motif, the base with denser similar motifs. [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 in Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002.
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