Four Indus Valley Painted Pottery Vessels
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Description
probably 3500 BCE, comprising: rounded vessel, with blue, red, and black pigment design of fish and birds, 8-7/8 x 7-7/8 in.; ovoid vessel, with blue, black and white pigment design of bulls and bushes, 5-3/8 x 8-1/2 in.; ovoid vessel, with black pigment design of antelope, 6-1/2 x 9-1/4 in.; rotund vessel, with white, orange, red, and black pigment design of lions, 7-1/2 x 9-3/4 in. [Asian Ceramics]
Note: With Thermoluminescence Analysis Report signed by Doreen Stoneham for Oxford Authentication Ltd. dated April 25, 2008 stating that one of the pieces is between 4200 and 6500 years old.
Provenance: Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc. (accompanied by copy of receipt dated 2008, indicating a date of 3500 BCE); The Estate of Peter H. Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut
Condition
loss to pigment, scratches and scuffs, chips to rims and bases
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