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LOT 2301
Pre-Columbian Nazca Painted Ceramic Bowl with Anthropomorphic Feline
CIRCA 400-1000 A.D.
14 3/8 in. (21 grams, 11 cm diameter).
The polychrome bowl with tapering sidewall, everted rim and rounded base, decorated with an anthropomorphic animal, likely a feline with large whiskers, its tail and head emerging at opposite sides of the bowl, and a 'mythical' face to either side. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P.R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Literature
Cf. The British Museum, museum number Am1914,0731.12, for a comparable design; cf. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.71.73.246, for a comparable example.
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LOT 2301
Pre-Columbian Nazca Painted Ceramic Bowl with Anthropomorphic Feline
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
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