Auction: December 8, 2019

Lot #184: Unknown Artist (Mexican, 20th Century) Fabric Collage

Undated, unsigned, textile art depicting "Combate Del Dos de Mayo", The Battle of Callao occurred on May 2, 1866 between a Spanish fleet under the command of Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez and the fortified battery emplacements of the Peruvian port city of Callao during the Chincha Islands War, framed in a lucite shadow box | Asian and Mexican Mask Assortment, Ten 20th C. items including masks fabricated of carved wood, papier-mache, clay, beads and straw; together with an embroidered silk hat and a mermaid sculpture