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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]
ProvenanceFrom 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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Indian Benares Brass Embossed Vessel
Circa 1890 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Funicular in profile with thick base, horizontal bands of punched fronds, hatched bands, pointillé leaves and other motifs; white metal rings to mouth and base. 489 grams, 17.5 cm
Acquired from the UK art market. Private Scottish collection. -
Gandharan Schist Frieze Fragment
2nd-4th century A.D. or laterEstimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Carved corbel or column fragment with scrolled foliage to three faces and socket to upper face to accept a statue; three youthful figures - two females flanking a larger male - each wearing the hair dressed in a topknot, with radiating sunburst behind them and below a team of two horses galloping left with empty saddles and their reins flung back towards the central character, probably a charioteer. 13.3 kg, 37 cm wide
London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Indian Framed Watercolour Painting Group
Late 19th century A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £80
Framed and glazed and displaying polychrome figural scenes bordered by flowering plants and panels of script: one depicting a tea(?) ceremony set in a landscape featuring blossoming trees and birds; a prince or other figure seated on a bolster, in a landscape featuring a brook and blossoming trees, surrounded by attendants. 932 grams total, 31 x 21.5 cm each
Acquired by the vendor's father on the UK art market, before 1990.
