This item is an authentic prehistoric Ban Chiang pot, in earthenware with spreading lip, above baluster body, with red line work on white ground, a round bottom,painted overall with a red pigment to depict a geometric decoration.
Condition : the surface of the body rough not smooth and wear. no crack or leak or having hole.
Material : mild baked clay.
Date : ca. 300 BCE - 200 CE. (middle age, Ban Chiang period)
Size : dia. upper lip = 85 mm, height = 100 mm.
History of Ban Chiang
Ban Chiang is a village site in northern Thailand excavated in 1974-1975 by Chet Gorman of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Pisit Charoenwongsa of the Thai Fine Arts Department. Before this work scholars thought that bronze metallurgy reached Thailand from India around 500 BCE; the general tone of the scholarship was that civilization in Thailand was entirely imported, and very lat
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