A pre-Columbian Olmec style finely carved amethyst quartz mask, probably 800-400 BC, with pierced ho
A pre-Columbian Olmec style finely carved amethyst quartz mask, probably 800-400 BC, with pierced holes to ears and sides, bearing collector's label to reverse, height 13cm, width 11.3cm. Provenance: from the estate of a West Sussex collector. Purportedly purchased by an Atlanta, Georgia, book dealer in New Orleans, at an estate sale of a Professor and Head of Archaeology at Tulane University.
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A pre-Columbian Olmec style finely carved amethyst quartz mask, probably 800-400 BC, with pierced holes to ears and sides, bearing collector's label to reverse, height 13cm, width 11.3cm. Provenance: from the estate of a West Sussex collector. Purportedly purchased by an Atlanta, Georgia, book dealer in New Orleans, at an estate sale of a Professor and Head of Archaeology at Tulane University.
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