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A Sultepec stone mask and a Mezcala stone figure, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
comprising an alabaster face with prominent nose, rounded cheeks and sunken eyes possibly once inlaid, and a serpentine figure with 3-fingered hands placed on the belly, with flattened back.
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robins, Jr.
Collection of the Abright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, No. 59:7:3, gift from the above, 1959, for the mask;
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robins, Jr.
Collection of the Abright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, No. 65:13:2, gift from the above, 1965, for the figure
Literature
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, New York, 1979, p. 129