Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022

Lot 101

A Nayarit seated female figure

Estimate £1,500 - £2,500

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Description

A Nayarit seated female figure

Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD

pottery, with a linear incised coiffure and wearing earrings, with slit eyes and an open mouth, wearing a double strand necklace and with nodules to the tops of the arms, the face and body with an orange slip,

42.5cm high.

Provenance

Harry and Elinor Lynn Collection, US, acquired from the Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 9 January 1975.

ArtAncient Limited, Cambridgeshire, 12 November 2014.

Romy Rey Collection, London.