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THBStriking Veracruz Pottery Warrior
Lot 80
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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, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz, Remojadas, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A hollow, hand-built pottery figure of a warrior. The figure's body supports his oversized triangular head, and the head verso has a recessed cavity. The front side of the figure is adorned with applied bands and squares to represent the pectoral, necklace, and earrings. The headdress has a strap that runs under the warrior's chin. The visage is comprised of a hook nose, a slightly open mouth, and painted black bitumen eyes. Bitumen pitch was frequently used by Veracruz artisans and adds an intensity to this figure's gaze. Size: 4.25" W x 6.75" H (10.8 cm x 17.1 cm); 7.75" H (19.7 cm) on included custom stand.
Excavations near the modern Mexican town of Remojadas have revealed two types of impressive, detailed pottery figures from the Veracruz period: the Sonrientes, the joyous "smiling faces", and more serious, mostly adult figures like this one, with elaborate costumes, themes, and sometimes props that all seem to point towards religious or political ceremonies. These figures are often found with the bodies broken into pieces though with the heads largely intact, as they were ritually destroyed as burial offerings. Their clothing suggests that they depict people of import in society, perhaps priests or nobility.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex- private lifetime collection of Dr. Saul Tuttman and Dr. Gregory Siskind, New York, New York, USA, 1980s
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#157718Fragment of a larger sculpture, which is not unusual as scholars posit that such figures were usually ritualistically broken. Losses as shown to the headdress, pectoral, base, and arms. Earthen encrustations and mineral deposits.Condition
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