Single Owner Online Auction (Sale #290)

Pre-Columbian Pottery Assortment

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Start price: $300

Estimated price: $600 - $800

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Pre-Columbian Pottery Assortment

(10) items including an Incan polychrome handled vessel having a jaguar head; a Colima jar having protruding head and tail of a dog; a Mexican bowl supported by addorsed figures and snakes rising above the rim, pierced at bottom of bowl; a rattle-leg tripod; a cup; Costa Rican tripod; and Central American bowls

Provenance: The Estate of George ‘Yorgo’ Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1965-2000

Property from: a Kalamazoo, Michigan estate

Height: 6 1/2 inches, Width: 7 inches, Depth: 7 inches (snake bowl)

Condition: Very Good to Fair, overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use; snake bowl having (2) cracked legs, crack and chip to rim; Costa Rican tripod missing a leg; cup and a tripod bowl assembled from shards

Disclaimers: please note: this lot came from a house that had been closed for some time and a musty odor may be present

Category: Decorative Arts > Ethnographic

Estimated Sale Time: 5:13 pm CST

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Sales Tax: California (7.25%), Florida (6%), Georgia (8.5%), Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), New Mexico (5.125%), New York (8.875%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%)

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Last modified: June 3, 2022, 1:27 pm

Condition: Very Good to Fair, overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use; snake bowl having (2) cracked legs, crack and chip to rim; Costa Rican tripod missing a leg; cup and a tripod bowl assembled from shards

Dimensions: 6.5 x 7 x 7 in