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LOT 2258
Chinese Neolithic Painted Ceramic Frog Jar
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
13 1/2 in. (3.3 kg, 34 cm).
Piriform bodied and painted with a figurative frog design; two loop handles to the equator.
ProvenanceEx Bath, Avon, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 2015.500.7.9, for similar.
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