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LOT 2522
Indus Valley Mehrgarh Terracotta Vessel with Fish
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 in. (74 grams, 83 mm).
With painted polychrome frieze of geometric panels and fish. [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.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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