Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 164
A Machalilla standing female vessel
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £650
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Description
A Machalilla standing female vessel
Ecuador, probably circa 1500 - 1100 BC
pottery, modelled with a forward leaning pose and wearing a rimmed headdress and having multi pierced ears, with red painted linear decoration,
31cm high.
Provenance
Mr Raymond Schultz, Ecuador and UK, and thence by descent.
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19 September 2018, lot 72.
Romy Rey Collection, London.