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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.
Provenancewith Balakh Carpets, 2003.
Private collection, Europe.
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Indus Valley Cylindrical Clay Fertility Figure
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A bell-shaped fertility figure with squat, bulbous head, stylised face composed of raised features including a heavy brow, pinched nose, and circular eyes; hollow-formed. 925 grams, 19 cm high
Fine condition.
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Large Indus Valley Clay Fertility Figure
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Fine condition.
Ex David Gold collection, before 2000. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
