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Lot 3131

Six Mata Ortiz Pottery Animal Figures

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$150

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Six Mata Ortiz Pottery Animal Figures, comprising snake, bull, turtle, lizard, owl and crow, all rendered in stylistic manner, and painted with geometric and stylized foliate designs. All with incised signatures, iby artists including Dulce N. Malero (lizardand bull) black stoneware turtle by Isidro Ortiz, and snake, owl and crow by Tomas Quintana.

{Approximate dimensions: 11 1/8" H. x 9" W. x  5 3/4" D.; the snake 3 5/8" H. x 10 1/4" W. x 11" D.}.

Very good condition, minor surface wear and scratches, dust and dirt, scattered pinhole size losses to enamels.

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