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LOT 2275
South East Asian Ban Chiang Period Painted Chalice
MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.
4 3/8 in. (407 grams,11 cm).
Formed as an oblate upper bowl with flared rim atop a trumpet-shaped foot; decorated with dense series of parallel and concentric lines forming vesica motifs. [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.
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