FOUR BANG CHIANG VASES DATE: 600-300 BC. MATERIAL AND TECHNIQUE: brown purified clay, white mottling, red paint, molded by slow lathe. Vase with flared rim, bitroncoconical body, cylindrical foot; jar with extruded rim, cylindrical neck, cylindrical body, flat bottom; olla with flared rim, bitroncoconical body, on four conical feet; cup with flared rim and hemispherical body, wide trumpet foot DECORATION: decorated with geometric motifs. PRODUCTION: Thai pottery, Bang Chiang culture. STATE OF CONSERVATION: intact DIMENSIONS: h. from 17 cm to 11,5 cm; mouth diameter from 17,5 cm to 9,5 cm. ORIGIN: private collection, Turin

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