COLLECTION OF INDUS VALLEY PAINTED VESSELS Ca. 2500 - 2000 BC. A collection of three pottery cups, each decorated in black over reddish or buff slip. The first is roughly cylindrical, with a central register depicting a zebu bull approaching a tree, below a frieze of small ibexes. The second has a biconical body and shows a running animal set against a crosshatched background. The third is tall and tapering, with a dense arrangement of stylised birds and concentric circles. For similar see: Katolec Corporation, Ceramics and terracotta figurines from Balochistan of the Katolec collection, 2017, Kulli Style pottery, p. 3. Size: 70-90mm x 45-60mm; Weight: 310g Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.