Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 22nd February 2023
Lot 59
A Maya stucco head
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £2200
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Description
A Maya stucco head
Mexico, circa 250 - 750 AD
the finely modelled face with a roughly modelled headdress, with a white slip,
29cm high, on a porphyry plinth. (2)
Provenance
Max Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden. (1933 - 2001)
Christie's, Amsterdam, Tribal Art, 11 December 2001, lot 280.
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19 June 2014, lot 1031.
Romy Rey Collection, London.