Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: 30 April 1930

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/845

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$143 A Mexican red clay Vase in the form of a human seated figure, bejewelled, wearing an elaborate head-dress and holding in front of him a cup, 12 in.; Zapotec fi » 144; A Mexican Vase in the shape of a seated figure with hands out- —— stretched in front, wearing a jewelled necklace and elaborate head-dress, 114 in.; Zapotec *: For type cf. “ Altmexikanische Kunstgeschichte,” by Walter Lehmann, pl. 34. 145 Another, very similar to the preceding lot but slightly smaller, 11 in. | | 146 A North West American carved horn Spoon, the handle decorated with figures and a reversed mask, the eyes inlaid with mother- o’-pearl, 104 in. _ [See Intusrration. Plate VIL] | {Pac 147 | A fine Mexican gold Pendant in the form of a grotesque human —__-—- figure with hands outstretched and holding what appear to be whiskers, 2 in. G » 148 {| A North West American carved horn Spoon with a curved handle, socssienalaunianin decorated with masks and inlaid with mother-o’-pearl, the back ve of the spoon finely carved with a grotesque human figure, eyes and masks inlaid with bone and mother-o’-pearl, 10 in. [See Intustration. Plate VI.] >¢, 149 | A RaRE MEXICAN GREEN JADE HUMAN Mask with finely carved features and in a good state of preservation, 34 1n.; in velvet- lined leather box [See Innustrarion. Plate VI.]$

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