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THBSuperb Veracruz Remojadas Pottery Head, ex-Sotheby's
Lot 130
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Artemis Gallery
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Louisville, CO 80027
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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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Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz culture, also known as Totonac (Totonaca), Remojadas, ca. 300 to 600 CE. A near-lifesize anthropomorphic head sculpted with portrait-like features and representing a male deity associated with the earth and its fecundity. The black facial painting (chapopote) is typical of the Gulf Coast, Veracruz region; it is draw in a thin stripe across the eyes, then covers the mouth and chin and highlights the eyebrows and striking pupils. The curled hair underneath the edge of the headdress is also colored with this thick black pigment. Size: 7.5" W x 8.8" H (19 cm x 22.4 cm); 10.7" H (27.2 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 figures that had heads like this one, more serious, and mostly adult figures making this youthful face unusual, with elaborate costumes, themes, and sometimes props that all seem to point towards religious or political ceremonies. Figures with heads like this example are often found with the bodies broken into pieces though with the heads largely intact, as they were ritually destroyed as burial offerings
Provenance: ex-Eugene Behlen collection, 1993 to 2006; ex-Sotheby's New York, USA, sale 4604y, May 9, 1981, lot # 214; ex-Peter Wray collection, California, USA (The Wrays were one of the top 5 collectors of pre-Columbian art in the world, circa 1978-86)
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#155580Head is a fragment from a larger sculpture, with losses below the chin and also losses to the headdress. Small filled regions around stabilized crack lines. Otherwise in fine condition with a great deal of pigment remaining as shown. Old collection label handwritten on back of head.Condition
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