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LOT 2216
Pre-Columbian Terracotta Anthropomorphic Votive Group
100 B.C.-15TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 - 4 3/8 in. (380 grams total, 6.3-11 cm).
Two pre classic stylised human heads from San Jeronimo, circa 100 B.C. from Guerrero, Mexico, with one other pre-Columbian figure, possibly female, with stylised painted facial features and remaining arm. [3]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s onwards.
Private collection of Michael O'Hara, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Ex private collection of Benjamin Hyde-Smith, Hertfordshire, UK.
See Easby, E., Before Cortes, Sculpture of Middle America, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, p.68, for a nice example of the pre classic San Jeronimo type.
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LOT 2216
Pre-Columbian Terracotta Anthropomorphic Votive Group
Estimate £250 - 350€290 - 410 (for guidance only)$340 - 470 (for guidance only)
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Ex Alan Cherry, Bournemouth, UK. Acquired in the 1990s. From a Norfolk, UK, private collection.
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Ex Alan Cherry, Bournemouth, UK. Acquired in the 1990s. From a Norfolk, UK, private collection.
