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THBRare / Huge Nazca Polychrome Sitting Venus Figure
Lot 27h
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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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By Artemis Gallery
Nov 14, 2019
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2019-11-14 10:00:00
2019-11-14 10:00:00
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Featuring Pre-Columbian, Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, historical examples from the Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers, fossils, and more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A stunning ceramic female Venus figure of an exceedingly rare size. The nude figure presents seated upon slender legs with delineated genitalia in-between, a rotund abdomen perhaps indicative of pregnancy, petite breasts, sinuous arms draped from prominent shoulders, and a wide neck. The elongated head exhibits an enormous nose, black eyes with white-painted sclera, a narrow chin beneath a painted mouth, and protruding ovoid ears under the pinched forehead and black coiffure. High burnishing marks provide a textured canvas for the orange-slipped ground, and traces of black, white, red, and yellow pigment add an attractive aesthetic. An extremely rare example of Nazca figurative artistry! Size: 7.3" W x 13.1" H (18.5 cm x 33.3 cm); 14" H (35.6 cm) on included custom stand.
A stylistically-similar example of a standing male figure hammered for EUR 11,162 ($12,435.97) at Christie's, Paris "Art Africain, Oceanien et Precolombien" auction (sale 5094, December 8, 2004, lot 340): https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/statuette-nazca-env-300-600-apres-jc-4402593-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=4402593&sid=af1d645e-b0ca-4818-abf6-dc7d2b8ab98a
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany
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#148344Professionally repaired and restored from multiple pieces, with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Minor abrasions to limbs, body, and head, with softening to some finer details, fading to original pigmentation, and light encrustations within some recessed areas. Light earthen deposits and great traces of original pigment throughout.Condition
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