Auction Closed
May 13, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
VERACRUZ STONE HEAD HACHA LATE CLASSIC, CIജRCA AD 550-950
Height: 8 in (20.3 cm)
Robert Stolper, London
Germ༒an Private Colle🔯ction, acquired from the above on October 14, 1968
Sotheby's, New York, November 22,🐠 1999,𒈔 lot 171, consigned by the above
Private Collection, acquired at the above auctioꦑn
The rounded crested head form with a distinctive cutaway section on the forehead, and the deeply recessed eyes, portrays a skeletal variety of the hacha type. For a similar example, see Leyenaar and Parsons, Ulama, Leiden, 1988, pp. 188 and 191, figs. 103 and 113.