Ca. 3000-2000 BC.A cream-coloured painted terracotta vessel with a bulbous body and a flat base. The exterior of the pot is painted with a pair of crouching tigers between peepal trees. The Indus Valley Civilisation was an important Bronze Age culture which arose in c. 3300 BC and lasted until c. 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:90mm / W:160mm ; 452gProvenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.