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THBQuimbaya Pottery Figure, Gilt Copper Nose Ring & Cuffs
Lot 95
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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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Features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fine Art, so much more! All legally acquired, legal to sell. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Middle Cauca Region, Caldas Complex, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A hollow-built pottery male figure of a highly-abstract form seated with hands placed upon upraised knees. Though nude with delineated navel and genitalia, the figure is elegantly decorated with gilded copper cuffs covering his forearms and a large gilded copper nose ring suspended from the pierced septum of his pronounced nose. His minimalist visage is further comprised of planar cheeks, wide slit-form eyes, and a slit-form mouth. Slab figures like this example were placed with burial offerings in shaft and chamber tombs, perhaps as guardians or companions for the deceased. A wonderful example from ancient Colombia with a somber, almost entranced countenance. A beautiful example with gilt copper arm cuffs and nose ring. Size: 5" L x 7" W x 8" H (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm x 20.3 cm)
For a few stylistically-similar examples, please see: Labbe, Armand J. "Colombia Before Columbus: The People, Culture, and Ceramic Art of Prehispanic Colombia." Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1986, p. 94, plates XVIII to XXI.
Provenance: private Honolulu, Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Bruce Pearson collection, Mesilla, New Mexico, USA, 1970s
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#163213A few losses and tears to gilt copper cuffs. Gilt nose ring is intact. All have developed a nice warm patina over the ages. Left arm reattached. Chips to head (above right proper eye) and toes. Normal surface wear with abraded areas commensurate with age. Scattered mineral deposits.Condition
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