Online February Auction (Sale #274)
Lot 46:
Description
Pre-Columbian Style Ceramic Assortment
(5) items including a Jaina style Mayan whistle depicting a personage in elaborate garb retaining faded blue and yellow pigments; a Zapotec black ware head pot depicting Cocijo the rain god; a Costa Rican jar having an applied relief decorative band with (3) frog effigies; a reticulated ceramic ear spool; and a bag of plain and decorated pottery shards and fragments of figurines
Height: 5 inches, Length: 4 1/4 inches, Width: 2 1/2 inches (Jaina whistle)
Condition: Very Good to Good, surface irregularities typical of hand-made pottery; whistle sounds, but having losses at top edge, chips at lower corners; head pot assembled from fragments with restorations; frog pot chipped at rim and at decoration having loss of a frog head; ear spool having a chip; shards are fragments of many larger items, none matching; overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use
Category: Decorative Arts > Ethnographic
Estimated Sale Time: 10:33 am CST
Shipping Status: Leonard Auction, Inc. will provide direct shipping for this lot.
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Sales Tax: Illinois (8.000%), New Jersey (6.250%), Pennsylvania (8.000%), Washington (10.500%)
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Condition: Very Good to Good, surface irregularities typical of hand-made pottery; whistle sounds, but having losses at top edge, chips at lower corners; head pot assembled from fragments with restorations; frog pot chipped at rim and at decoration having loss of a frog head; ear spool having a chip; shards are fragments of many larger items, none matching; overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use
Dimensions: 5 x 2.5 x 4.25 in
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