Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 107
A Nazca jar
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £3000
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Description
A Nazca jar
Peru, circa 50 - 450 AD
terracotta, the neck with a moulded human face wearing a hat painted with crosses and with strands of hair, to a globular body painted a pair of arms and an elliptical patterned poncho, the base with a white painted collection number N340,
30cm high.
Provenance
Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1913 - 1987.
ArtAncient, London, 1 Feb 2016.
Romy Rey Collection, London.
Published
Art of the Andes Pre-Columbian Sculpted and Painted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, p.265.
Exhibited
The City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15 August 1983 - 2 October 1983.
Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, 15 November 1983 - 15 January 1984.