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8462

Mapuche Silver Head Ornament or Necklace (Trarilonco)

Mapuche People, Chile
19th century

length: 55cm, weight: 179g

Provenance

private collection, UK.

4115

Exceptional Collection of 18 Aztec Black-Clay, Tubular, Ear Plugs or Spools

Aztec Civilisation, Capilco, Mexico
14th-15th century

diameter: 2.1cm (smallest), 3.1cm (biggest)

Provenance

UK art market, prior to that Madrid, Spain from before 1974

6144

Colonial Spanish Powder Flask (Yesquero)

Colonial Spanish, Argentina
19th century

length: 7cm (not taking into account the curve), weight: 27.59g

Provenance

UK art market

5653

Necklace of Manabi Terracotta Spindle Whorls

Pre-Colombian Manabi Culture, Ecuador
500BC-500AD

length: 68cm, weight: 104g

Provenance

Acquired in the UK, from the estate collection of Dr George Yuille Caldwell (1924-2016). Dr Caldwell, an English-born physician moved to Singapore in the 1950s, from where he built up a superb collection of ethnographica.

5988

Fine, Colonial South American Silver Toothpick Holder

Peru or Bolivia, Colonial South America
18th century

height: 11.8cm, weight: 124g

Provenance

UK art market

5038

Pair of Mapuche Carved Wooden, Iron & Leather Stirrups

Mapuche people, Chile
18th-19th century

height of wooden section of each stirrup: 25cm, width: 22cm, depth: 15.5cm, length of leather strap: 38cm

Provenance

UK art market