1st millennium BC. A large ceramic globular buff vessel with slightly flaring rim, rounded base; body textured using vertical combing technique; shoulder decorated with incised bands with red pigment. For type see, Labbe, A. Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspective, Bangkok, 2002, p.47, no.48, pl.48. 4.94 kg, 38cm (15"). From an important South London private collection; acquired in the early 1990s; accompanied by a copy of an Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence analysis report for a vessel found alongside this one, reference number N108n31, dated 8 May 2008.