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LOT 2114
Arana Nazca Lines Drawn on Natural Painted Stones
20TH CENTURY A.D.
13 x 7 1/8 in. (776 grams total, 33 x 18 cm).
Group of pebbles with inscribed and inked motifs from the Nazca Lines monument; mounted on a wooden board. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Nye and Company, New Jersey, USA, 5-9 June 2013, lot 2999779 (part).
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Nazca line drawings are a series of symbols etched into the earth by the Nazca people of Peru between 200 B.C. and 500 A.D.
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