Colima Blackware Pottery Seated Figure w/ Jar

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Art & Artifacts of North America

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Sep 9, 2021

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• Lot Description
  Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressive terracotta figure shown seated with a jar positioned between his legs. Enveloped in a lustrous black glaze, the ancient figure displays a flat body, lengthy tubular arms, square shoulders, and a petite head. He rests his hands on his legs and gazed slightly skyward, presenting a stylized face of bulging, circular eyes, a round nose with incised nostrils, and a petite mouth, all flanked by a pair of tab-like ears and capped by helmet-like headdress. The fascinating figure wears a belt, a collar necklace, and armbands, as ceremonial scarification adorns their shoulders. Size: 5.3" W x 7.9" H (13.5 cm x 20.1 cm)
  
  Colima, located on Mexico's southwestern coast, was during this time part of the shaft tomb culture, along with neighbors to the north in Jalisco and Nayarit. In this culture, the dead were buried down shafts - 3 to 20 meters deep - that were dug vertically or near vertically through the volcanic tuff that makes up the geology of the region. The base of the shaft would open into one or more horizontal chambers with a low ceiling. These shafts were almost always dug beneath a dwelling, probably a family home, and scholars posit that they were used as family mausoleums, housing the remains of many related individuals. This is a figure made to be placed inside those mausoleums, perhaps to mediate between the worlds of the living and the deceased.
  
  Provenance: private Healy collection, Studio City, California, USA; ex-Arte Primitivo, New York, New York, USA, before 2010
  
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  #166559

  Condition

  Collection label and collection number on base. Repair to head, jar, and arms with restoration over break lines. Expected nicks, abrasions, and scratches as shown, all commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent with nice earthen deposits in recessed areas.
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