Exhibited Colima Pottery Seated Figurative Vessel

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Fine Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic Art

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Oct 31, 2019

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• Lot Description
  Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hollow-built and highly burnished redware pottery vessel depicting a stylized figure seated with bent legs upon a wide posterior. The figure leans dramatically forward in an almost mourning pose, holds thick arms close to the chest, and has a thick neck sprouting up from the stocky shoulders. The elongated head features coffee-bean-shaped eyes, a prominent and slightly crooked nose, broad ears with pierced lobes, puffy lips, and a tall forehead that tapers to a circular spout. Size: 5.5" W x 8.75" H (14 cm x 22.2 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 believe 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 dead.
  
  This piece was exhibited in the Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) in the 2000s.
  
  Provenance: private Howard Rose Gallery, New York, New York, USA; ex-private Nevada, USA collection; exhibited at the Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV, 2000s; ex-Dr. David Harner collection, Arkansas, USA, acquired between the 1950s and 1960s
  
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  Condition

  Repairs to one ear and nose, with possible restoration to nose, and small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor abrasions to limbs, body, and head, with light encrustations, fading to areas of original pigmentation, and areas of fire-darkening. Nice earthen deposits and manganese blooms throughout. Old inventory label beneath posterior.
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