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LOT 2335
Pre-Columbian Chupicuaro Painted Terracotta Bowl
PRE-CLASSIC PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.
8 1/8 in. (640 grams, 20.5 cm).
Broad and squat with rounded underside, single red painted band to the inner rim and another to the outer equator, band of painted black saltires above. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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