Ca. 3000-2000 BC.A cream-coloured terracotta vessel with a hemispherical body and a flattened ring base. The interior of the pot is divided into nine registers with the central one depicting a zebu bull, to his left and right are smaller registers with birds, above and below are ones with peepal trees, and the other cells are filled with diagonal lines composition. The Indus Valley Civilisation was an important Bronze Age culture which arose in ca. 3300 BC and lasted until ca. 1300, though its heyday, to which this ceramic vessel belongs, was in the 3rd millennium BC. Cf. N. Satyawadi, 1994. Proto-Historic Pottery of the Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, New Delhi.Size: L:70mm / W:210mm ; 404gProvenance: From the private collection of a Central London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/European art market before 2000.