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LOT 2207
Thai Basket-Shaped Terracotta Cooking Vessel
AYUTTHAYA, 14TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
3 5/8 in. (217 grams, 92 mm).
Carinated in profile with broad base and thick rolled rim; impressed polygonal hatching to sidewall. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom South Central Sulewesi.
Ex private Surrey, UK, ethnographic collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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