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LOT 2230
South East Asian Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
9 1/4 in. (1.35 kg, 23.5 cm).
Broad bowl with flared rim atop a trumpet-shaped base, all decorated with a dense series of reserved interlocking spiral motifs. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
See Labbe, A., Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspective, Bangkok, 2002, p.50, no.74, pl.74, for type.
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LOT 2230
South East Asian Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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