Indus Valley Mehrgarh Painted Vessel with Lions

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic cup with painted polychrome frieze of lions and geometric panels. 100 grams, 85mm (3 1/4"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980. [

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic cup with painted polychrome frieze of an ibex, zebu and lion. 115 grams, 90mm (3 1/2"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980. [No R

3rd millennium BC. A bell-shaped ceramic footed cup with painted frieze including ibexes, a serpent and standing birds. 180 grams, 13cm (5"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery;

3rd millennium BC. A squat biconvex ceramic jar with flared rim, painted polychrome frieze to the shoulder of geometric panels and pairs of fish. 630 grams, 17cm (6 3/4"). From an important London col

3rd millennium BC. A squat ceramic cup with polychrome painted frieze of geometric panels and wolves with gaping jaws. 95 grams, 90mm (3 1/2"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age potter

3rd millennium BC. A globular jar with everted rim, polychrome painted geometric bands with fish, zebu, gryphon and other items. See Satyawadi, S. Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation:

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic vessel with carinated body, stepped shoulder, short neck, rolled rim and convex base; remains of painted frieze composed of stylised leaf motifs and concentric bands to th

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic vessel with piriform body, short neck, angled rim and flat base, deep panel of painted geometric motifs around the body, framed by plain concentric bands. 567 grams, 14cm

3rd millennium BC. A small carinated ceramic vessel with broad everted rim and convex base, a circumferential frieze of stylised leaf motifs between plain bands painted on the upper body. 158 grams, 8

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic vessel with carinated body, trumpet-style neck and rim, convex base, stylised leaves and bands painted around the body. 230 grams, 11.1cm (4 1/4"). Property of an Essex ge

3rd millennium BC. A group of ceramic Nal culture vessels with polychrome pigment decoration in the form of panels depicting advancing gryphons, fishes, lions and geometric motifs. See Satyawadi, N. P

3rd millennium BC. A large terracotta bowl with band of polychrome ornament to the rim, frieze of crouching lions and grazing ibexes. See Satyawadi, N. Proto-Historic Pottery of the Indus Valley Civil

Ca. 3000–2000 BC. Indus Valley Civilisation. A shallow terracotta bowl in a deep amber colour standing on a ring foot. The interior is decorated with a lion, two stylised birds and linear motif

3rd millennium BC. A tall ceramic bowl with rounded base, painted polychrome frieze with zebu and lion with geometric panels in between; the body slightly squashed during the manufacturing process. 16

3rd millennium BC. A terracotta jar with low everted rim, painted frieze of ibexes to the shoulder, zebus and peepal trees to the body. See Satyawadi, S. Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilis

Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A wonderfully-painted example of some of the earliest decorated pottery in central Asia. This is a short, cylindri

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic Nal culture vessel with polychrome pigment decoration in the form of panels depicting an ibex, a lion and geometric motifs. See Satyawadi, N. Proto-Historic Pottery of the

First time at auction… Ancient Near East / Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2300 to 1900 BCE. An attractive pottery vessel hand-painted with impressive image

Description: Ca. 2500 BC. Interesting Indus Valley small terracotta vessel, with birds eating leaves. Black paint, possibly retouched. Provenance: ex. Private British Collector, acquired in 70s. All p

3rd millennium B.C. A ceramic vessel of carinated form and slightly concave upper body with everted rim and shallow foot, polychrome geometric frieze to the upper body. 460 grams, 15.5 cm wide (6 1/8

3rd-2nd millenium BC. A mixed ceramic group comprising: a squat jar with flared rim, serpent motif to the shoulder; a cup with waisted sidewall, frieze of fish; a vase with flared foot and rim, geomet

3rd millennium B.C. A ceramic vessel of carinated form with waisted upper body, everted rim and shallow foot, decorated with painted polychrome frieze composed of a medial band of concentric and conjo

3rd millennium BC. A ceramic vessel with carinated body, short neck, everted rim and discoid foot, the upper body later decorated with leaf and geometric motifs. 256 grams, 12cm wide (4 3/4"). From an

3rd-2nd millennium BC. A ceramic cup with flared discoid base rising to an irregular rectangular-section mouth; bands of painted geometric design flanking four leaf motifs. See Satyawadi, S. Proto-His