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LOT 2298
Indus Valley Terracotta Jar with Ibex
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 5/8 in. (429 grams, 14.5 cm).
A jar with the remains of four pierced lug handles with frieze of ibex to the shoulder, to the body alternating male ibex and partridge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Lockdales, Suffolk, UK, auction 155, lot 1468.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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