Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 20th September 2023
Lot 1243
A Diaguita bowl
Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £180
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Description
A Diaguita bowl
Chile, circa 1000 - 1500 AD
pottery, with painted stepped linear decoration in brown and red on a fawn ground, with a handwritten label Bowl, Chilean Diaguite Pre-Conquest, before 1530, 1954, Digby B.M.,
14cm diameter,
and a Diaguita pottery jug, circa 1000 - 1500 AD, with polychrome geometric decoration, with a similar handwritten label and 67 to the base, 12.5cm high. (2)
Provenance
Annie Trotter, London, 11 June 1997.
Romy Rey Collection, London.