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POTTERY BOWL WITH<br />
HUMAN FIGURES<br />
Purportedly environs of Ban Chiang<br />
Iron Age. Circa 300 BC – 200 CE<br />
Grey pottery with white slip and red painted design<br />
Height 21 cm. Diameter 33 cm.<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Loss Register Certificate ref. S00087436<br />
Considered to be one of the most important prehistoric settlements in Southeast Asia, Ban Chiang<br />
in Northern Thailand, related settlements across the Mekong in Laos, and their associated culture<br />
flourished in the 1st millennium BCE and the early centuries of our era. It is famed for its red-painted<br />
pottery, unparalleled anywhere in Southeast Asia. While virtually all mid- to late-period pottery<br />
is decorated with spiral and curvilinear patterns, depictions of animals are extremely rare. And not<br />
more than ten vessels, or fragments of them, painted with human figures have been uncovered.<br />
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