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LOT 2351
Pre-Columbian Chupicuaro Painted Buff Ware Bowl
PRE-CLASSIC PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.
7 1/2 in. (463 grams, 19 cm).
Broad shallow bowl with carination to the rim, painted hatched band to the rim and geometric motifs below. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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