Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities

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Two Maya bowls Guatemala, circa 250 - 750 AD pottery, with polychrome decoration, including a band of stylised zoomorphic motifs above four sun mo...

Two Nazca bowls Peru, circa 100 - 600 AD pottery, the larger painted with seven panels of radiating squares, 16.4cm diameter and the other painted...

A Diaguita bowl Chile, circa 1000 - 1500 AD pottery, with painted stepped linear decoration in brown and red on a fawn ground, with a handwritten ...

A Casas Grandes jar Chihuahua, Mexico, circa 1300 - 1450 AD pottery, of ovoid form with a fawn ground and with black and red painted geometric dec...

A Chiribaya jug Chile / Peru, circa 900 - 1450 AD pottery, with a strap handle and painted geometric and dotted designs in brown, black, red and c...

A Hopi bowl Arizona pottery, painted a sylised deer and triangle motifs, 17.5cm diameter, and two Tewa pottery bowls, each with a painted geometr...

A Guanacaste jaguar bowl Costa Rica, circa 1000 - 1500 AD pottery, modelled with two pierced jaguar heads and four legs, with carved decoration an...

An Atlantic Watershed Region tripod vessel Costa Rica, circa 100 BC - 500 AD pottery, the bowl with a wide rim on three standing male supports wit...

An Aztec goblet Mexico, circa 1300 - 1521 AD pottery, with an incised band of three repeating symbols, with red and black decoration, 15cm high. ...

An Olmec miniature vessel Las Bocas, Mexico, circa 1200 - 500 BC pottery, modeled as a duck with a black glaze and traces of red pigment, 7.5cm lo...

A Huastec chest ornament Mexico, circa 900 - 1500 AD shell, carved as a mask with incised linear and dot decoration, 13cm high and wide, on a stan...

A Mexican shell arm band possibly Haustec, circa 1200 -1500 AD with pierced and carved decoration depicting a stylised animal, one of the pierced ...

A Tairona zoomorphic ornament Columbia, circa 800 -1500 AD shell, carved as a stylised crocodile head and two birds, with attachment holes to the ...

λ λA Maya pendant Mexico, circa 250 - 900 AD shell, with a scalloped edge and pierced and incised a figure wearing a headdress and with open palms...

Four Amazon necklaces Brazil including two with peccary teeth and fibre, the smaller with red cloth, 37cm and 54cm long, two with shell and fibre,...

A Chavin bone implement Peru, circa 900 - 400 BC with carved decoration of a fanged head and a toothed snout with wave scrolls, the back with a ma...

A Chimu implement / sceptre Peru, circa 1100 - 1400 AD the burnt blade to an open rattle handle, containing seeds, with a finial carved as a seate...

A Chancay janiform post Peru, circa 1100 - 1400 AD with a conical finial above the two human heads, with traces of pigment, to a reduced shaft, 41...

A Maya mask fragment Mexico, circa 250 - 900 AD pottery, with pierced eyes, 15cm high, with a stand, two Bahia pottery masks, Ecuador, circa 500 ...

A Maya bust Tiquisate, Guatemala, circa 250 - 750 AD pottery, hollow of bell form, moulded as a female wearing a headdress, ear ornaments and neck...

Two Narino figural vessels Colombia, circa 800 - 1500 AD pottery, modelled as a squatting pregnant female and a male with his hands to an open mou...

Six Mexican figures pottery, including three Chinesco seated figures, circa 100 BC - 250 AD, with painted decoration, 8.5cm, 9.5cm and 10.4cm high...

A Michoacan standing figure probably Tiristaran, Mexico, circa 300 - 100 BC pottery, with a backwards slanting head, ear ornaments, a necklace and...

A Tlapacoya torso Mexico, circa 1100 - 500 BC pottery, with one half of the headdress having incised linear decoration, recessed eyes with pinched...

A Colima couple Mexico pottery, sitting on a bench wearing headdresses and ear ornaments, the male with a nose ornament, both holding a vessel and...

A Chinesco seated figure Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD with slit eyes, pierced septum and mouth, with a deep red slip with darker outline and yell...

Three Mexican masks including one with a moustache and painted in black and red, the back carved 32, 17cm high, another with a long beard and mous...

A Veracruz zoomorphic mask Mexico modelled as a bull's head, with a metal disc inset to the forehead, 26.7cm high, and a donkey head mask, 31.5cm ...

Two Guerrero masks Mexico painted black on gesso, with long curved noses, one painted yellow, green and red, 26cm and 17cm high. (2) Provenance R...

Seven Mexican masks including one of leather with gesso and paint with a wooden nose and a snake on the left side of the face, 19cm high, one pain...

A Venezuela zoomorphic stool with a dished back, curved tail and inset bead eyes, with a dark stain, 32cm high, 108cm long. Provenance Romy Rey ...

A Maroon circular tray Suriname the dished top with low relief carving and applied brass studs, the base carved with a stylised leaf rondel and an...

Five Karaja pottery female figures Brazil with painted decoration, three standing and two seated, four with fibre loin cloths, and a wooden Karaja...

An Amazon model tapir Brazil with black painted linear decoration, 18.5cm high, 45.5cm long. Provenance Susana Montiel, London, 27th November 201...

A Makuna spirit dancer headdress mask Colombia bark cloth and fibre with an applied resin/gum mask with painted decoration, 65cm high. Provenance...

Two Shipibo baby carriers Peru cotton with bone pendants having linear incised decoration, one with a handwritten identification label - Chanchama...

Two Campa baby carriers Peru / Brazil striped cotton with bone pendants having incised geometric decoration, 56cm and 57.5cm wide, and a poncho, ...

A Paraguay ear ornament of disc form, with a hand written label Ear wood. Paraguay., 6.2cm diameter, 3.3cm deep. Provenance James T. Hooper, Lond...

A collection of South American cloak pins Bolivia and Mapuche silver coloured metal, including six with pierced disc ends, five with embossed disc...

A Santa Clara blackware jar New Mexico of ovoid form with a relief carved encircling avanya with a matt painted mouth, the base signed L. Zafia, ...

A Plains breastplate North America bone hair pipes, leather and brass beads, 50cm high, 28cm wide. Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. ...[m...

Two Plains necklaces North America dentalium shell, glass beads and haliotis shell pendants, the smaller with a handwritten label J.r / 75 Indian ...

A Plains scraper North America antler, with collection sticker for Fortess Collection numbered 1035, 31cm long. Provenance Leo and Lillian Fortes...

Alan Lydiat Durst (1883 - 1970) Northwest Coast style mask with polychrome decoration, signed ALAN DVRST 1929, 32cm high. Provenance Romy Rey Co...

A Haida spoon British Coumbia, Canada horn with abalone shell inlay, the handle carved with a human face and stylised animals, 22.5cm long. Prov...

λA Santa Cruz ear ornament Solomon Islands turtleshell, with a carved bar representing fish and with nine attached rings, 19cm high, and three Sol...

λ Five Papua New Guinea pectorals shell and fibre, three crescent shape kina, includling a Mendi kina with a fibre necklace and red pigment, 19cm ...

Two Abelam charms karaut Papua New Guinea boars' tusks, woven fibre, shells and pigment, one with feathers, 35cm and 48cm long, and an Abelam armb...

A Papua New Guinea chest ornament wawapu Aitape area boars' tusk, woven leaf fibre, shells and resin, previously with seeds, 47cm long, 23cm wide...

A collection of Melanesian artefacts shell, boars' tusks, fibre, nut cases and beads, including an Asmat nose ornament, 19cm wide, necklaces, bang...

A coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica) Seychelles carved and polished, 29cm high, 31cm wide. Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. ...[more]

Three Dayak dart quivers Borneo, Indonesia bamboo, with rattan bindings, two with incised decoration and rattan lids, two containing darts, 35cm, ...

A Timor Islands spoon Indonesia horn, the shaped handle with a beast finial and incised and pierced decoration, 20.2cm long, a Timor Island spoon,...

A collection of Oceanic adze blades stone, basalt and shell, including Cook Islands, 12.5cm long, two with later written labels ex The Melanesian ...

A Massim canoe splash board lagim Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea with a carved squatting figure and stylised bird scrolls, with remains of wh...

A Tami Islands bowl Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea with relief carved fish and a semi-circular lug to each side, the base with a carved eliptical and...

Three Boiken platters Papua New Guinea one with a relief carved line around the edge, a fish tail and a lizard, pierced for attachment and painted...

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