AZTEC

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[ Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. ] Decorative advertising board for 'Wedgwood Aztec Lustre on the original cane body'.

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Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd, earthenware and porcelain manufacturers
Publication details: 
Wedgwood [ Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd., Etruria Works, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ]. Undated (1920s?).
£35.00

Printed in black and red on one side of a piece of 14.5 x 20.5 cm brown card. Designed in a style showing the influence of Art Deco. Within a decorative border with floral corners. Text, in capitals, reads: 'Wedgwood | Aztec Lustre | On the original cane body | Reminiscent of the brilliantly coloured | pottery made by the Aztecs, a cultured | race who inhabited Mexico and the | northern part of South America | before the Spanish Conquest in 1520.'

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[ American auction catalogue. ] The William Gates Collection. Manuscripts, Documents, Printed Literature, relating to Mexico and Central America.

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The William Gates Collection of material relating to Mexico and Central America; The American Art Association, Inc., New York
Publication details: 
American Art Association, Inc. Madison Avenue, 56th to 57th Street, New York. 1924.
£80.00

Medium-sized unpaginated 8vo. With frontispiece, one plate, and reproductions in text. Stitched, in printed card wraps. Internally in good condition, on lightly aged and worn paper, in grubby, aged and worn wraps with slight loss to one corner of back cover. Subtitle reads: 'With special significance to Linguistics, History, Politics and Economics, covering the Five Centuries of Mexican Civilization from the Aztec Period to the Present Time'. Descriptions of 1580 lots sold over five sessions. Catalogue preceded by three-page 'Resume of the collection written by Mr.

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