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LOT 2322
Indus Valley Mehrgarh Terracotta Vessel with Animals
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/4 in. (705 grams, 18.5 cm).
A squat jar with everted rim, painted polychrome frieze to the shoulder with geometric panels, a crouching lion and a zebu with a fish above. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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