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LOT 2581
Large Indus Valley Terracotta Water Jug
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
10 1/2 in. (2.7 kg, 26.5 cm high).
A pitcher with squat bulbous body, dimple base, short neck with scooped rim, strap handle to the rear, band of vestigial painted ornament to the equator. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex property of a London gentleman; from his father's collection formed in the late 1980s-early 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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