A pair of Colima figural vessels

A pair of Colima figural vessels

Mexico, circa 100 BC - 250 AD

pottery, modelled as seated hunchbacks, with a red slip,

12cm high. (2)

Provenance

Sir Peter Hope KCMG, 1912 - 1999, British Intelligence Officer and later Ambassador to Mexico, 1968 - 1972.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 1 March 2017, lot 34.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

Exhibited

Ancient Mesoamerica, Precolumbian Mexican and Maya Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 4th June to 31st July 1970, no's 87 and 88.