2nd-1st millennium BC. A ceramic double carinated vessel decorated with curvilinear, rectilinear and meandering bands incised and with coloured slip to the central panel, textured pattern to the upper shoulder and base section; thick ring-base. For type see, Labbe, A. Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspective, Bangkok, 2002, p.58, no.156, pl.156. 2.94 kg, 35cm (13 3/4"). From an important South London private collection; acquired in the early 1990s; accompanied by an original Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence analysis report number N108n15, dated 8 May 2008.