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THBColima Redware Standing Musician, ex-Sotheby's
Lot 128a
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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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Bidsquare : Exceptional Day 2 Ethnographic Tribal Fossils
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Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional ethnographic art from around the world. Today's sale will feature Pre-Columbian from the ancient americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, and incredible Fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional ethnographic art from around the world. Today's sale will feature Pre-Columbian from the ancient americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, and incredible Fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A lovely, hand-built male pottery figure standing on a pair of stocky, delineated legs and broad feet which present six toes a piece. The rotund figure boasts a highly-burnished surface, leans slightly forward due to his dramatically hunched back, and wears a tight-fitting loincloth with two back flaps. The musician is shown playing a rectangular drum using a small antler fragment while supporting the instrument atop his portly abdomen. His head bears an entranced meditative countenance with closed, slit-form eyes, parted lips, a slender nose, and cupped ears, all beneath a high-arching coiffure with a spout on the verso. Covered in red-brown slip, this is a wonderful example of ancient shaft-tomb culture pottery! Size: 8.125" W x 12.5" H (20.6 cm x 31.8 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 seem to have been 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 dead.
For a stylistically-similar example of a Colima drummer with a more ornate presentation, please see: Kan, Michael, Clement Meighan, and H. B. Nicholson. "Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima." Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989, p. 71, fig. 103a.
Provenance: private Florida, USA collection; ex-Sotheby's, New York Pre-Columbian Art Auction (sale 6420, May 17, 1993, lot 138)
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#137889Upper body repaired from multiple large pieces with light restoration, resurfacing, and overpainting along break lines. Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, small chips to feet, ears, arms, drum, and spout, and fading and chips to slip pigmentation. Nice manganese blooms in scattered areas, and light earthen deposits throughout.Condition
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