Published & Exhibited Nayarit Chinesco Pottery Female

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By Artemis Gallery

Oct 3, 2019

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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

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• Lot Description
  Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Nayarit, Chinesco, Type C style, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. An enormous example of a hand-built pottery female figure that stands atop a pair of delineated legs and arching feet. Her highly burnished body is covered in red slip and accentuated with white rings and panels along her legs and comprise her waist band, and her abdomen, exposed breasts, rounded shoulders, and slender arms exhibit panels of solid red pigment. A white-painted bead necklace encircles her elegant neckline. Her bulbous head bears perky ears, slit-form eyes and lips, a bulbous nose, and a broad forehead, all beneath an orange-painted coiffure with a central red stripe. Size: 7.375" W x 18.1" H (18.7 cm x 46 cm); 19.3" H (49 cm) on included custom stand.
  
  West Mexican shaft tomb figures like this one derive their names from the central architectural feature that we know of from this culture. Elite individuals of the Nayarit culture would build generally rectangular vertical shafts down from the ground level - 3 to 20 meters deep - to narrow horizontal tunnels that led to one or more vaulted or rounded burial chambers. The geomorphology in the area means that these chambers are dug out of tepetate, a type of volcanic tuff material, which give the chambers a rough-edged look. Although the dimensions of the chambers vary considerably - some only large enough to hold a single burial and its offerings, others seem designed to hold entire lineages - the placement of burial goods like this hollow figure was very similar. Grouped with other hollow figures, and alongside clay bowls, and boxes, they were positioned around the body (or bodies), near the skull.
  
  A stylistically similar example, of a slightly larger size and with a red-painted head, hammered for $104,500 at Sotheby's, New York "African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art" auction (May 14, 2010, lot 54).
  
  Provenance: ex-private Howard Rose Gallery, New York, New York, USA; ex-private Nevada, USA collection; ex-Harmer Rooke Galleries, New York, New York, USA, acquired in the 1980s, collection # HR.03; exhibited at Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV in the early 2000s; Published: John-Platt Collection, University of Virginia Museum, 1986; ex-Daniel M. Friedenberg collection
  
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  Condition

  Professionally repaired from multiple large pieces, with areas of restoration, and resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions to feet, legs, body, and head, with fading to areas of original pigment, and light encrustations within some recessed areas. Great traces of original pigment and nice craquelure throughout.
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