Oriental Rugs & Carpets; Asian, African, Pre-Columbian & Devotional Works of Art

POTTERY FIGURE OF A DOG, seated with alert upturned head, l. 10.6" - 27 cm., West Mexico, Colima, 5-10th c. C.E. See illustration

NAYARIT SEATED MALE FIGURE, wearing a peaked cap, with ringed ears and nose, with one hand to mouth, the other holding a shaft, ht. 15" - 38 cm...

NAYARIT CHINESCO POTTERY HEAD, ht. 3.9" - 10 cm., West Mexico

ZACATECAS POTTERY SEATED MALE FIGURE, with attenuated arms and legs, splayed horns, painted in salmon and white on burgundy ground, ht. 11" - 2...

TEMPISQUE, GUANACASTE POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED MAN, hands to hips, wearing a loincloth, painted in black geometric devices on a reddish brown ground

COLIMA POTTERY MASK, with sunken eyes, flange form nose and ears, ht. 7.5" - 19 cm., West Mexico

NAYARIT POTTERY FIGURE OF A WOMAN, standing in a patterned skirt, with multiple ear and nose rings and a chevron patterned band to the head, carrying

COLIMA POTTERY FIGURE OF A SEATED WOMAN, with hands held outward, with a spout to the head, ht. 12.6" - 32 cm., West Mexico, c. 100 B.C.E. - 25...

COLIMA POTTERY FUNERAL GROUP, with four men and women standing beside a coffin, all painted in red and black on a buff ground, l. 6.3" - 16 cm....

SEPIK AREA BASKETRY MASK, with bold eyes and cranial boss, ht. 19.7" - 50 cm., Highland New Guinea

SEPIK RIVER AREA FINIAL, of elongated head form, with traces of white, pink and ochre pigment, ht. 26" - 66 cm.

BENIN STYLE WOOD BUST, in the manner of a helmet mask, ht. 21.7" - 55 cm.

BAKUBA 'BOMBO' MASK , richly onlaid with beads, metal, shells, cloth and seeds, ht. 17.7" - 45 cm.

SENUFO MASK OF A BUSH COW, with white painted teeth, eyes and ears and incurved horns, l. 20.1" - 51 cm.

DOGON POT HANGER, ht. 15.7" - 40 cm.

MOSSI FIGURE OF A WOMAN, holding hands to her belly, wearing a loincloth, the cylindrical body surmounted by a compressed head, ht. 11" - 28 cm.

SENUFO KPELIE MASK, with bush cow horns, pendant locks and pierced beard flange, ht. 15" - 38 cm.

MENDE HELMET MASK, the banded coif with crescentic surmount, ht. 16.5" - 42 cm.

N AFRICAN MASK, the concave smiling face painted in white and black over red, ht. 9.8" - 25 cm.

N AFRICAN HELMET MASK, with grimacing moon face and two trailing downcurved horns, ht. 16.1" - 41 cm.