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THBLarge San Agustin Pottery Burial Jar w/ Lid
Lot 127a
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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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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Colombia, San Agustin culture, Horqueta period, ca. 600 to 100 BCE. A beautiful and sizable burial jar built from red-brown pottery. The vessel features a broad, hemispherical base with a sharply angled midsection, a deeply carinated neck that flares outwards to form the collared rim, and a cavernous interior. Surmounting the rim is a bowl-shaped lid bearing incised linear and zigzag motifs around the circumference. The vessel body showcases a pair of minimalist and abstract anthropomorphic figures with petite heads and enormous sinuous limbs that bent at the elbows and knees. San Agustin was an extraordinary cultural area known for its distinctive lithic and ceramic traditions which created substantial burial vessels like this example. Size (w/ lid): 11.65" W x 16.8" H (29.6 cm x 42.7 cm); 17.5" H (44.4 cm) on included custom stand.
Cf. Labbe, Armand J. “Colombia Before Columbus: The People, Culture, and Ceramic Art of Prehispanic Colombia.” Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1986, pp. 80-81, plate XXX; also see The Walters Art Museum, accession number 48.2844
Provenance: private New York, USA collection, acquired around 1966
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#159164Lid and upper neck repaired from several large pieces, with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Light abrasions to lid and body, with softening to some incised details on lid, and light encrustations. Great preservation to figural details on vessel body.Condition
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