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THBExtremely Rare Proto Nazca Polychrome Figural Drum
Lot 22
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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
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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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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Proto to 1st Phase Nazca, ca. 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE. A wonderful polychrome pottery percussion instrument in the form of an anthropomorphic figure with high relief hands upraised in adoration and a noble visage comprised of half-opened eyes (as if entranced by the beat of the drum), a pronounced curved nose, a slit mouth, delineated nasolabial folds, cup-shaped ears, and a ridged, combed back coiffure with tresses falling past his shoulder. All is decorated with red, chocolate brown, and cream hued slip. Size: 8.75" in diameter x 14" H (22.2 cm x 35.6 cm)
See another polychrome Nazca drum in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to the curatorial description, "Ceramic drums with a bulbous sounding chamber were made in southern Peru in the centuries around the turn of the first millennium. Held under the arm when played, the drum had a drumhead stretched across the opening at the bottom…" The example featured here predates the example at the MET; however, one can certainly note the similarities. (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1978.412.111/)
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Dr. Fischer collection, Germany
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#148332Tiny TL hole to interior of drum cylinder. Missing skin over drum. Firing hole atop figure's head. Probe hole on back. Normal surface wear commensurate with age. Some touch up to pigment on the face, but very well done. Otherwise excellent.Condition
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