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Superb Indus Valley Polychrome Pottery Cup

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Superb Indus Valley Polychrome Pottery Cup: Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. Gorgeous and in excellent condition, this is a round cup with a diminuitive round foot. A thin black line demarc

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Indus Valley Polychrome Cup w/ Petaloid Motifs: **First Time At Auction** Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro Civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery cup with a squat foot, a broad, circular body with tall w

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Indus Valley Polychrome Cup w/ Lion & Geometric Motif: Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro Civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery cup of attractive form with a petite foot beneath an inverted, bell-shaped body.

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Indus Valley Painted Pottery Cup: 2nd-1st millennium B.C. A ceramic vessel of carinated form and slightly concave upper body with everted rim and shallow foot, polychrome geometric frieze to the upper body. 294 grams, 13 cm wide (5 1/

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3 Indus Valley Polychrome Cups w/ Zoomorphic Motifs: Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A fine grouping of 3 hand-built pottery bowls with narrow feet beneath broad, cylindrical bodies, all deco

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Indus Valley Mehrgarh Polychrome Flared Cup with Lion: 3rd millennium BC. A ceramic Nal culture vessel with polychrome pigment decoration in the form of panels depicting an ibex, a lion and geometric motifs. See Satyawadi, N. Proto-Historic Pottery of the

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Indus Valley Mehrgarh Polychrome Cup: 3rd millennium BC. A large ceramic Nal culture storage jar with polychrome decoration, rectangular cells each with a pepal leaf. See Satyawadi, N. Proto-Historic Pottery of the Indus Valley Civilisati

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Indus Valley Pottery Cup w/ Antelope: **First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A small terracotta vessel with a circular base, smooth walls, a deep interior cavity,

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Indus Valley Pottery Cup: Pakistan/Afghanistan, ca. 2800 BCE. A very fine pottery cup from the Indus Valley. Thin-walled on short foot, decorated with added black geometric pigments. Unlike so many examples on the market, this

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INDUS VALLEY HARAPPAN POTTERY CUP: Ca. 2700-2000 BC A pottery cup with a petite circular foot, a broad base, tall walls, and a slightly flared rim surrounding the deep basin. The cream-slipped exterior is adorned with surrounding by th

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INDUS VALLEY HARAPPAN POTTERY CUP: Ca. 2700-2000 BC A wheel-thrown pottery cup with a circular foot, a broad base, tall walls, and a slightly flared rim surrounding the deep basin. The cream-slipped exterior is adorned with a zoomorphi

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INDUS VALLEY HARAPPAN POTTERY CUP: Ca. 2700-2400 BC A pottery cup with a petite circular foot, a broad base, tall walls, and a slightly flared rim surrounding the deep basin. The cream-slipped exterior is adorned with linear motifs tha

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Ancient Indus valley Terracotta Painted Cup with Bull: Ancient Indus valley Terracotta Painted Cup with Bull Date: 3300-2000 BC Description: Superb Ancient Artefact accompanied by a lifetime guarantee of Authenticity. Ancient Indus valley Terracotta Paint

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Indus Valley Cup - Beautiful Bichrome Decoration: Near East, Indus Valley, ca. 4000 to 3000 BCE. A very early terracotta cup with an impressive decorative program comprised of a wide band of stylized geometrics adorned with a linear motif painted in

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Indus Valley Terracotta Cup - Ibex and Bull: Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A pretty ceramic cup with a small, disc foot and its exterior ringed with a motif of a zebu bull staring directl

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Indus Valley Terracotta Cup with Geometric Decoration: Near East/Pakistan, Indus Valley, ca. 4000 BCE. A terracotta cup on narrow foot with remarkably thin, generally straight though slightly concave walls from the Indus Valley. The body is comprised of r

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Superb Indus Valley Polychrome Pottery Cup

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Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. Gorgeous and in excellent condition, this is a round cup with a diminuitive round foot. A thin black line demarcates the rim on the interior and exterior. The rest of the interior is colored a deep red. The exterior has a brilliant abstract geometric decoration of ziggurat-like crosses with circles inside of them, separated from one another by colored borders. Black outlines each shape, which are colored in with red, orange-yellow, and a pale, dusty sky blue. Size: 3.3" W x 2.25" H (8.4 cm x 5.7 cm)

Provenance: private Orange County, California, USA collection acquired before 2000

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Superb Indus Valley Polychrome Pottery Cup

Name: Superb Indus Valley Polychrome Pottery Cup
SKU: 55930531
Price: 400 USD
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