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LOT 2298
Indus Valley Painted Terracotta Vessel Collection
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/2 - 6 1/8 in. (2.1 kg total, 8.8-15.5 cm).
Including a broad bowl with guilloche and hatched triangle band, biconical jar with cainated profile, bowl with slightly flared rim and scale pattern band to the shoulder, and other types. [10, No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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