Pick of the week: Heavyweight bid as Aztec mosaic made of feathers sells to Paris museum

A remarkable example of 16th century cross-culture art – a feather ‘mosaic’ picture made in Mexico for Christian conquerors – has been purchased at auction by the Musée du Quai Branly.

The Paris museum of ethnographic art used its right of pre-emption to secure the rare survivor for…

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