Lot no. 872
INDUS VALLEY POTTERY JAR WITH BULL.
Ca. 2500 - 2000 BC
A pottery jar with a globular body, broad shoulder and short cylindrical neck. The shoulder and upper body are painted in black on an orange slip, with a main frieze of two long-bodied bulls striding between stylised trees, below a narrow register of running monkeys encircling the neck.
Size: 250mm x 240mm; Weight: 1.8kg.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market since the 1970s.
For similar decoration see: A. Uesugi, Ceramics and Terracotta Figurines from Balochistan of the Katolec Collection, Cat. 87.
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