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LOT 2311
Indus Valley Mehrgarh Polychrone Cup with Birds
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/2 in. (247 grams, 11.5 cm).
Bell-shaped with basal ring, frieze to the sidewall of perching birds and pepal leaves. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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