Lot 61
India, Chandraketugarh Period III, Shunga (Sunga) Period, ca. 185 BCE to 50 CE. A gorgeous and striking piece of fine orange-red pottery with a stamped design around its body and a crenellated rim with further stamped designs around it. A wide band of low-relief figures that appear to be both human and animal run around the widest part of the body. A beautiful find from a rare culture. Size: 8" W x 7.15" H (20.3 cm x 18.2 cm)
Chandraketugarh, located northeast of modern day Kolkata, was a large fortified settlement with high ramparts and wooden housing on both sides of the fortifications. Period III was the most prosperous period, when the level of pottery production seems to have been the finest - as well as the most influenced by contact with the Romans (or at least, their trade goods). Beginning in this period and continuing to ca. 650 CE, their pottery was bright, with intricate designs created by painting, stamping, incisions, molding, and appliqueing. Vases like this one were not handmade - they were made by specialists in an urban economy and were made for an urban, elite or at least middle-class clientele. The quality of this vase speaks to Chandraketugarh's place along the Indian Ocean trade routes and its cosmopolitan culture.
Provenance: Ex-Private LA County collection acquired in the 1980's
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- Condition: Damage to rim, with losses to half of it and the design worn away around the rest of it. Some more minor wear/damage to body but no cracks.
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