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LOT 2181

South East Asian Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice

MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.

9 1/2 in. (1.65 kg, 24.2 cm).

Red-on-buff chalice with everted rim, globular body and trumpet-shaped base; surface decorated with concentric bands, arches and floral motifs on a hatched field. [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.

Literature

Cf. Labbe, A., Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspective, Bangkok, 2002, p.50, no.74, pl.74, for type.

CONDITION

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LOT 2181

South East Asian Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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