1st millennium BC. A massive ceramic storage vessel with flared and carinated neck; body decorated with painted pattern of loops and swirls. For discussion see, Labbe, A. Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002. 4.7 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 for a vessel found alongside this one, reference number N108n4, dated 8 May 2008.