INDUS VALLEY CULTURE PAINTED TERRACOTTA VESSEL

C. 3rd millennium BC. Indus Valley Civilisation. Beautiful terracotta coloured hemispherical bowl with high foot and black painted design. The outside wall is decorated with 4 felines with protruding tongues, walking forward. The neck shows geometric patterns. The Indus Valley Civilisation was an important Bronze Age culture which arose in c. 3300 BC and lasted until c. 1300, though its heyday, to which these kind of ceramic vessels belong, was in the 3rd millennium BC. Large numbers of ceramic vessels decorated with black slip have been found among the sophisticated urban settlements of South Asia's protohistoric Indus Valley civilization. The walls of this jar are so thin that it must have been created on a potter's wheel. The ibex is one of the most popular zoomorphic motifs present in the Indus Valley production. Provenance: Property of a North London gentleman; previously acquire on the UK/European art market in the 1990s. Size: L:150mm / W:275mm ; 2.1kg