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35 Six Mexican masks with painted decoration, the highest 25cm. (6) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300

36 Six Mexican masks all with painted decoration and two with applied hair, one Xantolo with pierced head, brows and chin, on a stand, the highest 25cm. (7) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300

37 Four Guerrero ‘devil’ masks Mexico painted and with cloth, hair, glass beads, leather and horns, 30cm, 34cm, 37cm and 44cm high. (4) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £300400 35

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39 A pair of Kuna figures San Blas Islands, Panama male and female with red pigment to the faces and bodies, the female with long hair and carved lines to the arms, 25.5cm and 26.5cm high, on a metal base and two Kuna figure wearing a round hat and a ridged hat, with red pigment to the cheeks, 28cm and 28.5cm high, on a metal base. (6) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300

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41 Eight Kuna figures San Blas Islands, Panama all standing and with beak like noses, one wearing a tie and rimmed hat and with painted decoration, five with red pigment to the cheeks, the highest 12.2cm high, on metal bases. (16) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £300500 38 Four Kuna figures San Blas Islands, Panama standing, including one wearing a hat and with inset metal eyes and raised on a previously circular base, 21.5cm high, one as a priest with polychrome decoration, 25.5cm high, another wearing a jacket and a bowler hat, with polychrome decoration, 28cm high and one wearing a skirt and a flat headdress, 22cm high, all with metal bases. (8) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300

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40 Six Kuna figures San Blas Islands, Panama four with red pigment to the cheeks, the highest 35.5cm, all on metal bases. (12) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300

42 A Moche stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 200 - 400 AD terracotta, modelled as a jaguar’s head with painted decoration, 29cm high. Provenance by repute - Bonhams, London, 3rd October 1990, lot 169. Romy Rey Collection, London. £150250

44 A Chavin stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 700 - 400 BC blackware, modelled as a standing jaguar, with incised spots and four claws to each foot, 21cm high. Provenance Bonhams, London, 8th April 1997, lot 7 - Estate of Alan Kalenberg, assembled exclusively from New York auctions between 1979-1987. Romy Rey Collection, London. £300400 43 A Moche stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 300 - 700 AD terracotta, modelled as a sitting jaguar with an open mouth, with painted decoration, 25.5cm high. Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300

45 A Moche stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 500 - 700 AD terracotta, modelled as a coiled snake, 19.5cm high. Provenance Annie Trotter, London, 24th November 1993. Romy Rey Collection, London. £150250

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47 Three Chimu stirrup vessels Peru, circa 1100 - 1400 AD blackware, including one with two cylinders, 9.5cm high, another double with a seated rotund figure, 15.5cm high and another double with a head having a bifurcated coiffure, and the back with crescents and birds, 14.5cm high. (3) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £150250

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49 Two Chimu stirrup spout vessels Peru, circa 900 - 1470 AD blackware, one modelled as an armadillo and with a bird to the base of the spout, 18cm high and the other as a puma monkey transformation, 22.5cm high, and a Chimu figural vessel, 12.5cm high. (3) Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300 46 A Chimu stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 1100 - 1400 AD blackware, modelled as a fish, the arch with a band of birds and with a monkey at the base of the spout, the underside with an old catalogue entry ?74 Fish-shaped Vessel of black terra-cotta, Ancient Peru RARE, 19cm high. Provenance Romy Rey Collection, London. £200300

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48 A Chavin stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 700 - 400 BC blackware, with incised decoration of four stylised heads, 25.5cm high. Provenance Bonhams, London, 8th April 1997, lot 8 - Estate of Alan Kalenberg, assembled exclusively from New York auctions between 1979-1987. Romy Rey Collection, London. £250350

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