Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025

Lot 317

Four Pre-Columbian stencils

Estimate £200 - £300

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Description

Four Pre-Columbian stencils
Peru, circa 1000 - 1400 AD
pottery, including two cylinders with carved geometric designs, 8.2cm and 6cm long, another with line and dots, with painted collection number 6189., 7.5cm long, and a disc with concentric circles, an x, dots and arches, numbered 57 and 650, 4.9cm diameter, three Pre-Columbian pottery spindle whorls, with incised decoration, and a Mexican pottery bowl, with pierced lugs for a handle and with incised dot and linear decoration, 12.5cm wide. (8)

Provenance
William Ohly (1883 - 1955) Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.