2nd-1st millennium BC. A large ceramic buff carinated jar with flared rim, red pigment to the lip; further pigment and incised lines to the top of the neck; rounded base. For type see, Labbe, A. Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002, p.46, no.39, pl.39. 5.41 kg, 39cm (15 1/2"). 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.