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THE ROMY REY COLLECTION (PART I)

45 45 A Nayarit seated ball player Mexico, circa 100 BC 250 AD pottery, wearing a head band, multiple earrings and noserings, with an open mouth with teeth showing, a four strand neck ring with a bird pendant, his hands supporting a ball in front of his chest and with a waist band having a concave tongue like protrusion to the front, with crossed legs, with a red slip and black, white, and yellow pigment detailing, 48cm high. Provenance Stanley J. Seeger Collection, USA. Sotheby’s, London, 5 March 2014,1000 Ways of Seeing: The Private Collection of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, lot 451. ArtAncient Ltd, London/Cambridgeshire. Romy Rey Collection, London. Published Kellecher, P.J. The Stanley J. Seeger Jr Collection, Princetown University Press, Princetown, 1961, no 152. £2,0003,000

46 A Moche stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 200 900 AD pottery, modeled as a Llama with a large gourd on its back, with two tone painted decoration, 17cm high. Provenance Stothert and Trice, London. Romy Rey Collection, London. £150250

47 A Moche stirrup spout vessel Peru, circa 500 700 AD pottery, modelled as a frog, 16cm high. Provenance Hans Monheim Collection, Germany, acquired in the 1950s. Howard Nowes Ancient Art, New York, 2004. Romy Rey Collection, London. £300400