Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 177
A Nayarit large standing warrior figure
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1900
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Description
A Nayarit large standing warrior figure
Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD
pottery, wearing a pointed headdress, earrings, nose rings and armbands, with bared teeth, holding a dagger and a small square shield and with a mace like object on his abdomen, with a red slip and back and white pigment decoration, white painted collection number 1162,
68cm high.
Provenance
Stanley J. Seegar Collection.
Sotheby's, London, 1000 Ways of Seeing: The Private Collection of The Late Stanley J. Seeger, 5 March 2014, lot 453.
ArtAncient Ltd, London, 1 Feb 2016.
Romy Rey Collection, London.
Exhibited
Kelleher, P.J. The Stanley J. Seeger Jr. Collection, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1961, no. 159.