INDUS VALLEY PAINTED JAR WITH QUADRUPEDS. Ca. 2500 - 2000 BC. A terracotta painted jar of buff fabric with an ovoid body and a rounded base. A short tapering neck features a collared moulding and an everted lip. The body is painted in black with a continuous frieze showing long-necked quadrupeds above a cross-hatched ground. Concentric bands frame the scene at the shoulder and base. For similar decoration see: A. Useugi, Ceramics and terracotta figurines fom Balochistan of the katolec Collection, Cat. 185. Size: 290mm x 265mm; Weight: 2.7kg Provenance: From the collection of a London gentleman; formerly acquired in early 2000s in Belgium; previously in 1970s European collection.