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LOT 2516
Indus Valley Terracotta Jar with Ibexes and Birds
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
8 1/2 in. (1.1 kg, 22 cm).
With bulbous body and everted rim, the body painted with four geometric panels, two panels with leaping ibexes and two with stylised bird in flight, band of hatched lines below the rim. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex property of a North London gentleman; previously in a private collection formed in the 1990s.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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