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THBNayarit Nude Female + Male Warrior, ex-Sotheby's
Lot 147
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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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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Protoclassic, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A fabulous pair of pottery figures: a male warrior and a standing nude female. Both figures stand upon thick, spread legs with clearly delineated toes and genitalia, their heads displaying traditional Nayarit characteristics with wide, staring eyes, sizable, up-turned noses, and gaping mouths. Matching earrings decorate their prominent ears, while collar necklaces lay across their broad necks. Dressed in barrel armor, the male wields a slender club before him, intended to defend the tomb in which he was placed. A horned helmet crowns his head, adorned by incised striations that also embellish his armor. Alternatively, the female leans slightly forward, standing akimbo with hands placed on her bulging belly, just below her pointed breasts. Size of larger (female): 8.6" W x 16.8" H (21.8 cm x 42.7 cm)
Clay figures like this pair are the only remains that we have today of a sophisticated and unique culture in West Mexico. They made no above-ground monuments or sculptures, at least that we know of, which is in strong contrast to developments elsewhere in ancient Mesoamerica. Instead, their tombs were their lasting works of art: skeletons arrayed radially with their feet positioned inward, and clay offerings, like these, placed alongside the walls facing inward, near the skulls. A large effigy figures such as these 2 would most likely have flanked the entrance to a tomb in a way that archaeologists have interpreted as guarding. Some scholars have connected these dynamic sculptures of the living as a strong contrast to the skeletal remains whose space they shared, as if they mediated between the living and the dead.
These pottery figures are published in "Pre-Columbian Art" Sotheby's New York, November 19, 1990, lot 185.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Sotheby's New York, New York, USA, sale 6102, November 19, 1990, lot 185; ex-Matilda Graff collection, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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#179595Both have been professionally repaired with restoration and overpainting, as well as expected nicks and abrasions to surface. Otherwise, both have an excellent presentation with heavy manganese blooms throughout. Nice preservation of incised detail and lustrous burnish and deep red pigment to surfaces.Condition
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