A Machalilla standing female vessel

A Machalilla standing female vessel

Ecuador, probably circa 1500 - 1100 BC

pottery, modelled with a forward leaning pose and wearing a rimmed headdress and having multi pierced ears, with red painted linear decoration,

31cm high.

Provenance

Mr Raymond Schultz, Ecuador and UK, and thence by descent.

Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art, 19 September 2018, lot 72.

Romy Rey Collection, London.