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Lot n° 71

A lot gathering two very beautiful miniature sculptures,...

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A lot gathering two very beautiful miniature sculptures, old elements of necklace, of which a round head in fossiliferous limestone inlaid with jade in the eyes and the mouth, and a head with the strongly deformed skull characteristic of the Olmec nobility, and coming from an old truncated and polished statuette. Probably Maya culture, 200 B.C. to 400 A.D., and Olmec culture, 900 to 400 B.C., State of Veracruz, Mexico Fossiliferous limestone and polished jades, very beautiful and old patina of use. H. 1.7 and 2.6 cm Provenance: Collection Nadine Vinot-Postry, Paris.