Oct 21, 2003 - Sale 1981

Sale 1981 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(PERU)
Group of 29 photographs of Pre-Incan artifacts, including studies of textiles and painted linen, fancifully painted and shaped pottery vases, bottles, and bowls; stone corbels; and a wooden paddle and staff. Albumen and one platinum (?) print, several multiples, various sizes from 71/2x11 to 7x71/2 inches (19x27.9 to 17.8x19 cm.), several numbered, in a later hand, in ink, on recto; all with handwritten caption information, in ink, an ex-collection hand stamp and penciled numerical notations on verso or mount verso. 1880s.

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A rich group of images whose captions identify the origin of each object as well as pottery type, purpose, and, in several instances, date.