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THBAncient African Nok Terracotta Seated Elder Female
Lot 171
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Western Africa, Nigeria, Nok culture, ca. 500 BCE to 200 CE. A fascinating coarse earthenware depiction of an abstract seated anthropomorphic female figure comprised of a light-orange terracotta, with contiguous legs wrapped in front of her tubular body in a ringed formation. A pair of arms rest atop rounded thighs while displaying a series of faintly-incised rings, while pendulous breasts and delineated female genitalia imbue the figure with a characteristically-female appearance. Upon a thick neck rests a domed head with stylized facial creases indicative of advanced age, with sad eyes and a quaint smile completing her haunting visage. Thick necklace bands adorn her neck and upper torso which suggest a higher societal status. A beautiful figural example from ancient Africa!
Classical Nok terracotta sculpture was first found in 1943 deep within a tin mine, near the present-day town of Nok, situated on the Jos Plateau in central Nigeria. The exact use of these portrait-like figures has yet to be discovered; none of these sculptures has ever been found in situ and any remains of these ancient structures are practically non-existent today. However, it has been suggested the hollow terracotta figures, which this head came from, were ancestral effigies kept in shrine houses.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Sebastian Fernandez collection, New York, New York, USA
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#131278Expected age-commensurate surface wear and roughness, fading to coloration and stylized features, with small nicks across base, body, neck, and head, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits throughout.Condition
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