Lot 178
  • 178

a Chontal stone mask, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

with pierced eyes and puckered mouth, rounded cheek bones and prominent brow joining the nose, with tiny drilled nostrils and narrow ear flanges, pierced at the corners; in speckled green and white diorite.

Provenance

Acquired in 1977

Catalogue Note

Cf. Gay and Pratt (1992: pls. 93 and 94).