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THBSuperb Colima Pottery Vessel - 8 Heads w/ Helmets
Lot 47b
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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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2019-10-03 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Exceptional Day 2: Pre-Columbian & Tribal Art
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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
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, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A wonderful Colima redware vessel with eight heads wearing crested helmets incised with notches on the crests, their visages presenting carefully modeled and incised features, each head delineated in high relief and emerging from the shoulders, with a short cylindrical neck rising above and resolving in a flared flat rim. Beneath the heads, the rounded lower body is beautifully incised with a band of diamond motifs from which cross-hatched inverted triangular motifs are suspended. A very impressive example that rivals published museum pieces, finely burnished and covered with manganese deposits. Size: 11" in diameter x 8.25" H (27.9 cm x 21 cm)
See a similar Colima vessel with with four heads in "Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima - a Catalogue of the Proctor Stafford Collecion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art" (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970, 1989, p. 137, fig. 124 and one with nine heads p. 25 (in color) and p. 138, fig. 125). Also see Von Winning and Stendhal 1968: fig. 113; Dwyer and Dwyer 1975: fig. 48; Gallagher 1983: fig. 92.
Provenance: ex Merrin Gallery, New York, New York, USA
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#149881Professionally repaired from multiple pieces with restoration over the break lines, but very well done. Minor nicks to ridges on a couple of helmet crests and possible old loss (now restored) to an ear or two. Nevertheless, overall, the form and details are very impressive. Covered with manganese deposits and wonderful burnishing marks.Condition
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