Very Large Ban Chiang Period Painted Storage Jar

MIDDLE PERIOD, 900-300 B.C.

17 1/4 in. (7.7 kg, 43.5 cm).

Large bulbus body with narrow shoulder, broad neck and everted mouth; two bands of painted ornament, intersecting scrolled tendril motifs reserved against a hatched field; some restoration. [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.

CONDITION

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LOT 2041