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LOT 2249
Thai Basket-Shaped Terracotta Cooking Jar
AYUTTHAYA, 14TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (290 grams, 11.4 cm wide).
Squat and carinated in profile with rounded underside, low neck and everted rim; impressed polygonal hatching to underside, horizontal hatchin to shoulder. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Amanda Barrie collection, Suffolk, UK.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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