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Indus Valley Terracotta Vessel with Birds and Geometric Designs Indus Valley Terracotta Vessel with Birds and Geometric Designs Indus Valley Terracotta Vessel with Birds and Geometric Designs
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LOT 2468

Indus Valley Terracotta Vessel with Birds and Geometric Designs

3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.

5 in. (406 grams, 12.8 cm wide).

With slightly sloping sidewall, flat shoulder and everted rim to the broad mouth; painted geometric bands and zoomorphic panels to side and shoulder; chipped, repaired.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

See Satyawadi, S., Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, Perspectives in Indian Art and Archaeology, vol.2, New Delhi, 1994.

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LOT 2468

Indus Valley Terracotta Vessel with Birds and Geometric Designs

Estimate £1,200 - 1,700€1,390 - 1,970 (for guidance only)$1,620 - 2,300 (for guidance only)

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