Description:

Heads - ca. 200-800 CE Ear Spool - ca. 1000-800 BCE. This pair of ceramic heads features elaborate headdresses and large ear-spools characteristic of the Teotihuacan style. The faces are well-defined with wide eyes and mouths as well as pronounced noses. Custom museum-quality stands. This grouping also includes a marvelously large-scale Olmec ear spool in pottery! Larger head measures 3-1/4" T x 3"W x 1-3/4"D; smaller head 3-1/4"T x 1-3/4"W x 1"D; ear spool 2"L x 1-11/12"D Provenance: Ex-Adeon Gallery, Chicago, IL, acquired prior to 1970. All items in this auction have been legally acquired, are legal to sell, and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids, papered by our parent company, Artemis Gallery Ancient Art. The starting price is the lowest price at which the lot can sell.

  • Condition: Heads are fragments, but near choice condition otherwise. Minor hairline crack in ear spool, but intact and excellent.

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