INDUS VALLEY NAL STYLE PAINTED VESSEL WITH BULLS. Ca. 2500 - 2200 BC A pottery vessel with near-vertical sides rising from a tapered lower body resting on a ring foot. The exterior is painted in polychrome with a frieze of two long-bodied bulls with prominent striped humps, arranged in opposed panels and separated by vertical lines, the animals set beneath stepped motifs suspended from the rim. Size: 150mm x 90mm; Weight: 450g. Provenance: Private London collector (H.G); formerly in Japanese 1980s collection. For similar see: A. Uesugi, Ceramics and Terracotta Figurines from the Balichistan of the Katolec Collection, Tokyo 2017, p.3.