**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Aztec, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A fine ensemble of two stone items from the Aztec Empire. First is a petite weight, hand-carved from a mottled yellow-green stone with brown inclusions, surmounted by a small bird with a bulbous body, folded wings, a flared tail, and an ovoid head with discoid eyes and an upturned beak. Second is a narrow paint palette carved by hand from a mottled dark-grey stone with brown inclusions. The palette bears a stylized standing human figure surrounded by a sinuous snake on the obverse, and a shallow paint basin on the verso. An intriguing collection from ancient Mexico! Size of largest (palette): 1.55" W x 4.375" H (3.9 cm x 11.1 cm).

Provenance: private Los Angeles County, California, USA collection; ex-private Los Angeles, California, USA collection

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#133892

Both items have surface wear and minor abrasions commensurate with age, minor nicks around peripheries, and light fading to finer incised details, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout.