Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 20th September 2023
Lot 1171
A Nayarit warrior
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £350
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Description
A Nayarit warrior
Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD
pottery, with a horned headdress, nose and ear ornaments and with a bird on each shoulder, holding a staff and with dark red, beige and black pigment decoration,
27cm high.
Provenance
Douglas Liddel, C.E.O. Spinks in the 1970s, joined in 1946.
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 2 September 2015, lot 50.
Romy Rey Collection, London.