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A LARGE NEOLITHIC POTTERY 'ZEBU' VESSEL, INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
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04月10日 下午5点 开拍 /1天4小时
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Mehrgarh culture, Balochistan, Pakistan, 2500-2000 BC. The tall waisted vessel supported on a tapered foot and rising to a gently swelling shoulder surmounted by a short neck with an everted rim, finely painted to the body with two wide bands of grazing zebus interspersed by cross symbols, framed by two narrower bands with geometric decoration, all divided by several line borders.Provenance: From the estate of M. Loneux, Liege, Belgium, a dealer and collector active until the late 1990s.Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Expected wear, small losses, few chips, nicks, scratches, flaking and rubbing to pigment, signs of burial, encrustations. Old repairs.Weight: 3,043 g Dimensions: Height 40 cmThe Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age culture in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilizations of the Near East and South Asia, and of the three, the most widespread. Its sites spanned an area from northeast Afghanistan and much of Pakistan to western and northwestern India. The civilization flourished both in the alluvial plain of the Indus River, which flows through the length of Pakistan and along a system of perennial monsoon-fed rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the Ghaggar-Hakra, a seasonal river in northwest India and eastern Pakistan.The cities of the ancient Indus were noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, clusters of large non-residential buildings, and techniques of handicraft and metallurgy. Both Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa likely grew to a size of 30,000 and 60,000 individuals, and the civilization may have contained between one and five million total population during its florescence. It is also known as the Harappan civilization, after its type site Harappa, the first to be excavated early in the 20th century in what was then the Punjab province of British India and is now Punjab, Pakistan.The discovery of Harappa and soon afterwards Mohenjo-Daro was the culmination of work that had begun after the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India in the British Raj in 1861. There were earlier and later cultures called Early Harappan and Late Harappan in the same area. The early Harappan cultures were populated by Neolithic civilizations, the earliest and best-known of which is Mehrgarh in Balochistan, Pakistan. Harappan civilization is sometimes called Mature Harappan to distinguish it from the earlier cultures.Zebu cattle are thought to be derived from the Indian bos primigenius namadicus, a subspecies of the aurochs. Wild Asian aurochs disappeared during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization from their range in the Indus River basin and other parts of the South Asian region possibly due to interbreeding with domestic zebu and the resultant fragmentation of wild populations due to loss of habitat. Believed to have first been bred in northwestern South Asia, between 7000 and 6000 BC, they are understood to have been dispersed by 4000 BC and spread across much of South Asia by 2000 BC.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related painted pottery jar, Balochistan, dated 2200-2000 BC, in the Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo.Auction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Christie's Amsterdam, 21 May 2003, lot 601Price: EUR 7,170 or approx. EUR 11,500 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: An Indus Valley pottery jar and a cup, 2300-2000 BC and 3300-3000 BCExpert remark: Compare the related manner of painting with similar animal and geometric motifs. Note the different size (12 cm) and that the lot further comprises a cup of smaller size painted solely with a geometric design.

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