**Originally Listed At $1200**

Southeast Asia, Northeastern Thailand, Ban Chiang culture, ca. 300 BCE to 200 CE. A superb hand-built earthenware vessel resting on a flared foot with a mesmerizing, patterned surface painted in a cream slip and red-orange scrolling motifs with abstract human figures around the body. This balanced profile is exceptionally beautiful, and this sizable piece is all the more impressive because it was molded by hand without the use of a potter's wheel! Earthenware vessels such as this played an important part in funerary burials - the deceased was buried at full length reclining position with pottery placed at the head and feet, these vessels were probably filled with food and tools for the afterlife. The painted surface and pedestal base indicates this piece was made during the Late Period. Size: 7.5" Diameter x 11.75" H (19 cm x 29.8 cm)

Provenance: private Arlington, Texas, USA collection, acquired mid to late-1960s

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#178070

Chips and abrasions to base foot and rim lip, otherwise intact and choice. Light mineral and earthen deposits on the surface and interior. Superb preservation to pigments.