Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 45
A Nayarit seated ball player
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £4500
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Description
A Nayarit seated ball player
Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD
pottery, wearing a head band, multiple earrings and noserings, with an open mouth with teeth showing, a four strand neck ring with a bird pendant, his hands supporting a ball in front of his chest and with a waist band having a concave tongue like protrusion to the front, with crossed legs, with a red slip and black, white, and yellow pigment detailing,
48cm high.
Provenance
Stanley J. Seeger Collection, USA.
Sotheby's, London, 5 March 2014,1000 Ways of Seeing: The Private Collection of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, lot 451.
ArtAncient Ltd, London/Cambridgeshire.
Romy Rey Collection, London.
Published
Kellecher, P.J. The Stanley J. Seeger Jr Collection, Princetown University Press, Princetown, 1961, no 152.