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THBColima Pottery Standing Warrior with Conch Shell
Lot 49a
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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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2019-10-03 10:00:00
2019-10-03 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Exceptional Day 2: Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art
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Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressive hand-modeled redware standing musician, holding a large conch shell instrument that is suspended around his neck in both hands. Among the modeled pottery figures created by ancient West Mexican artisans are wonderful conch shell percussionists as well as 'horn' players who blew through conch shells to produce sonorous effects for entertainment and/or ritualistic purposes. This figure presents a mesmerizing countenance, peering directly ahead with a contemplative visage comprised of coffee bean shaped eyes, a prominent nose, protruding ears (one still showing a perforation through which decorative ornaments such as feathers would have been suspended), and a horned helmet that symbolizes his shamanic or warrior status. Size: 7.75" W x 16.75" H (19.7 cm x 42.5 cm)
Interestingly, scholars have interpreted the horn on the helmet as a stylized conch shell, with deep symbolic significance as it related to authority, dominion, and leadership. Indeed horned figures have been interpreted as warriors and/or shamans who facilitated spiritual rituals.
See a seated Colima figure with conch shell instrument in "Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima" (Michael Kan, Clement Meighan, H.B. Nicholson, LA County Museum of Art, 1989) - figure 103b, page 71.
Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection; acquired in 1968 to 1970
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#149373Loss to lower section of right ear. Otherwise intact. Normal age wear with scuffs and minute nicks here and there. Velcro on underside of feet. Amazing root marks and manganese deposits grace the surface.Condition
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