Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 108
A pair of Colima figural vessels
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £400
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Description
A pair of Colima figural vessels
Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD
pottery, modelled as seated hunchbacks, with a red slip,
12cm high. (2)
Provenance
Sir Peter Hope KCMG, 1912 - 1999, British Intelligence Officer and later Ambassador to Mexico, 1968 - 1972.
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 1 March 2017, lot 34.
Romy Rey Collection, London.
Exhibited
Ancient Mesoamerica, Precolumbian Mexican and Maya Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 4th June to 31st July 1970, no's 87 and 88.