INDUS VALLEY KULLI JAR WITH OPPOSITE CAPRIDS. Ca. 2500 - 2000 BC. A terracotta jar with a biconical body that tapers towards a ring base and a short neck with a flaring opening. The shoulder is encircled by a decorative frieze depicting two pairs of opposing caprids with elongated bodies and distinctive curved horns extending backward. Their necks are accentuated with a linear pattern, while solid black areas define the rest of their bodies. The background is filled with a hatched pattern. Parallel lines frame the upper and lower edges of the scene, separating it from the undecorated sections of the jar. For similar see: Ceramics and Terracotta figurine from Balochistan of the Katolec Collection, f. 57 (shape), f. 62, n. 20 (decoration). Size: 170mm x 170mm; Weight: 940g Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.