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LOT 2214
Indus Valley Decorated Terracotta Jar
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 5/8 in. (324 grams, 11.8 cm wide).
Drum-shaped in profile with broad shoulder and mouth, flared rim; concentric painted bands to the shoulder and sidewall, with hatched and geometric detailing.
ProvenanceEx London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
London, UK, collection.
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LOT 2214
Indus Valley Decorated Terracotta Jar
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£222 (EUR 258; USD 300) +BP*
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Indus Valley Terracotta Vessel with Antelope and Bird
3rd millennium B.C.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Bulbous body with a narrow foot and an everted rim, the body with a polychrome frieze with a standing antelope depicted with long spiralling horns, and on the opposite side a peacock amidst vegetation, two panels with large flowers in between; possibly some repainting. 565 grams, 17 cm
Ex Abelita collection, 1990s. -
Indo-Persian Miniature Painting
20th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Framed and glazed displaying a figural panel inserted into four vertical columns of cursive script separated by red and blue bands, continued on the reverse. 1.15 kg, 45.5 cm
Property of a London gallery.
The scene is taken from the work of Nur Al-Din ‘Abd Al-Rahman Jami’, the famous Jami, a political scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature. It represents a scene of Yusuf and Zulaykha (the history of the biblical Joseph and the Egyptian wife of Potiphar, chief of the Pharaoh's guardsmen). -
Indus Valley Decorated Terracotta Jar
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £222
Drum-shaped in profile with broad shoulder and mouth, flared rim; concentric painted bands to the shoulder and sidewall, with hatched and geometric detailing. 324 grams, 11.8 cm wide
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s. London, UK, collection.
