Lot 174
  • 174

An Unusual Mezcala stone animal figure, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.

Estimate
5,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

carved to depict two animals - a crouching rabbit with bushy upturned tail and ears sloping into the head, and when inverted depicting a howling coyote; in veined and mottled serpentine. 

Provenance

Acquired in 1977

Exhibited

Paris, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Figures de Pierre: L'art du Guerrero dans le Mexique Précolombien, October 2-November 21, 1992, fig. 166, illus.