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LOT 2426
Pre-Columbian Peruvian Burnished Black Pot with Frogs
11TH CENTURY A.D.
5 7/8 in. (605 grams, 15 cm high).
Squat in profile with trumpet-shaped mouth, lateral pierced lugs each formed as the head and foreparts of a frog modelled in the half-round.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1970s.
Ex Nicolas Cuppy, UK.
Acquired in the 1980s.
Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
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LOT 2426
Pre-Columbian Peruvian Burnished Black Pot with Frogs
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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