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LOT 2311
Indus Valley Painted Geometric Pottery Bowl
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 in. (73 grams, 77 mm wide).
Drum-shaped with gently carinated base and narrow foot, the outer body displaying polychrome painted roundels with stepped borders.
Provenance
with Balakh Carpets, 2003.
Private collection, Europe.
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