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Lot 227
  • 227

Tête d’une statuette Culture Aztèque vallée de Mexico, Mexique 1300-1521 ap. J.-C.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Culture Aztèque
  • Tête d’une statuette
  • Basalte ferrugineux
  • h. 15 cm ; 6 in

Provenance

Collection Dr Rudolph Schmidt, Soleure, avant 1971
Collection Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Inv. n° 509-4

Exhibited

Soleure, Museum der Stadt, Allerlei Schönes aus Afrika, Amerika und der Südsee, 28 septembre-10 novembre 1957
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, 30 janvier-24 mars 1992, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, 11 avril-15 juin 1992, Barcelone, Fondation la Caixa, 25 novembre 1992-24 janvier 1993, Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992
Lisbonne, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 23 mars-4 juin 1995

Literature

Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992, 1992, pl. 67, p. 264
Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 1995, pl. 67
Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, 2000, cat. 67, p. 302

Condition

Accident visible de la tête, sans restauration particulière Damage visible to the head - no special restoration
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