Indus Valley Painted Geometric Pottery Bowl. 3rd millennium B.C. Drum-shaped with gently carinated base and narrow foot, the outer body displaying polychrome painted roundels with stepped borders. 73 grams, 77 mm wide (3 in.). (For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price.)

with Balakh Carpets, 2003. Private collection, Europe. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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