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LOT 2014
Large Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
11 1/2 in. (3.05 kg, 29.5 cm high).
Formed as a broad upper bowl with flared rim atop a smaller inverted bowl at the base; upper bowl decorated with dense series of interlocking spiral motifs, the base with looser similar motifs. [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.
Accompanied by an original thermoluminescence analysis report by Oxford Authentication with sample no.N107t24 dated 30 May 2007.
Literature
See Labbe, A., Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002.
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