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LOT 2060
Very Large Chinese Neolithic 'Leather Look' Amphora
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
22 3/4 in. (12.6 kg, 58 cm).
With piriform body and trumpet-shaped mouth, two loop handles to the equator; hatching to the shoulder and ring of pricking below the neck. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 2015.500.7.9, for similar profile with more decoration.
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