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LOT 2041
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.
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