Three Indus Valley pottery bowls, 3rd-2nd millennium BC, eac...

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Three Indus Valley pottery bowls, 3rd-2nd millennium BC, each painted in a black pigment, two with oxen, largest 12.5cm diameter, 9cm high

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Bowl with encrustation to the inside and around the main body covering some of the decoration otherwise good, bowl decorated with bulls birds and trees - diameter 13cm, 8.25cm high - some wear to the decoration, two chips to the rim, small chipping around the foot, last bowl decorated with bulls and stylised mountains - diameter 13cm, 7.5cm high - rubbing to decoration and some encrustatiom throughout

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Auction Date:
8th Oct 24 at 10am BST

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8th Oct 2024 10am BST (Lots 1 to 273)