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LOT 2328
Pre-Columbian Chupicuaro Life-Size Foot-Shaped Red Ware Vessel
3RD CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.
8 1/2 in. (813 grams, 21.5 cm).
With flat base and squat tubular neck, slightly flared rim to the mouth; body formed as a human right foot with nail detailing to the toes, sandal with multilinear straps and panel to the heel. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
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LOT 2328
Pre-Columbian Chupicuaro Life-Size Foot-Shaped Red Ware Vessel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
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Vinca Ceramic Animal Vessel
6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A dark grey thumb-pot with four stub legs, lateral flanges to the rim and conical lug; zoomorphic type(?). 152 grams, 71 mm
Acquired in the 1970s. From the Wedemeyer collection. -
Pre-Columbian Maya Stone Plaque with Opposing Figures
Classic Period, 3rd-9th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
Scene carved in low-relief comprising a male figure in profile wearing an elaborate segmented headdress, his right arm wearing a bracelet raised towards a profile figure with spiral bands on his headdress, short angled body with foot; hatched field between; traces of old glue to reverse; mounted on a display stand. 571 grams, 15.5 cm (663 grams total including stand)
From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent. -
Pre-Columbian Maya Stone Axehead
Pre-Classic Period, circa 500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Lentoid in section with square butt and slightly curved edge. 127 grams, 69 mm
Acquired from Alan Cherry, Bournemouth, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.SAI 1; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. Accompanied by an Alan Cherry dealer's information ticket.
