Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 20th September 2023
Lot 1229
A Jalisco kneeling female figure
Estimate £250 - £350 | Hammer £200
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Description
A Jalisco kneeling female figure
Mexico, circa 100 BC - 200 AD
pottery, with linear decoration to the face, wearing a cross-over strap headdress and disc ear ornaments, arm bands to the short arms and nodules to the shoulders, a knee length striped skirt,
42cm high,
and a Colima pottery seated hunchback figure, circa 100 BC - 250 AD, with incised linear decoration to the face, with the remains of a handwritten label to the base, 29.5cm high. (2)
Provenance
Jalisco - Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 3 April 2012, lot 784. From a collection of pre-Columbian art, acquired from Sotheby's, Christie's and the London art market from the late 1950s through to the 1970s.
Colima - Phillips, London, 11 December 1995, lot 203. Robert Mucci, Hastings.
Romy Rey Collection, London.