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THBColima Pottery Standing Female Figure
Lot 94a
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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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By Artemis Gallery
Jan 7, 2021
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2021-01-07 10:00:00
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Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! All categories, all price ranges... all legally acquired and guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Coahuayana Valley type, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A lovely handmade ceramic figure of flat form depicting an avian-esque female slightly squatting with broad shoulders, bent legs, and long arms falling parallel to her body. Nude for all but two circular earrings, a collar necklace, and headdress with a loop design, her long head displays slit eyes, arched eye brows, a prominent beak-like nose, and a smiling mouth. Two short braids fall along her neck. A lustrous stone burnish beautifully highlights the natural sienna-hued surface of this exemplary piece from Colima culture. Size: 2.25" L x 1.75" W (5.7 cm x 4.4 cm); 6.25" H (15.9 cm) on included custom stand.
Clay figures like this one are the only remains that we have today of a sophisticated and unique culture in West Mexico - they made no above-ground monuments or sculptures, at least that we know of, which is in strong contrast to developments elsewhere in ancient Mesoamerica. Instead, their tombs were their lasting works of art: skeletons arrayed radially with their feet positioned inward, and clay offerings, like this one, placed alongside the walls facing inward, near the skulls. A large effigy like this one most likely would have flanked the entrance to a tomb in a way that archaeologists have interpreted as guarding. Some scholars have interpreted these dynamic sculptures of the living as a strong contrast to the skeletal remains whose space they shared, as if they mediated between the living and the dead.
A nearly identical figure of smaller scale can be found at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College under accession number 1986.151.
Provenance: Private New York Collector from 1966
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#159206Repaired from several pieces with some break lines and adhesive material visible. Small nick to back. Nice earthen deposits and manganese throughout.Condition
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