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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