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LOT 2344

Pre-Columbian Chancay Decorated Bowl

9TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.

4 3/4 in. (186 grams, 12.1 cm).

Squat with rounded underside and slightly everted rim, opposed lugs to the rim, band of painted crosshatching beneath the rim and rectangles with arrowheads beneath, chip to rim.

Provenance

Acquired in the 1970s.
Ex Nicolas Cuppy, UK.
Acquired in the 1980s.
Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.

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LOT 2344

Pre-Columbian Chancay Decorated Bowl

Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)

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