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THBWest African Nok Pottery Head
Lot 180
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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
Apr 25, 2019
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2019-04-25 10:00:00
2019-04-25 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Pre-Columbian | Tribal | Ethnographic
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Featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
West Africa, Central Nigeria, Nok, ca. 500 BCE to 200 CE. A fascinating head hand-made from a coarse, quartz-tempered clay to depict an expressive face with pierced half-circle eyes, a naturalistic nose with delineated nostrils, and a round, wide open mouth. The style of Nok facial features shows similarity to more historic and contemporary bronze and wooden sculptures found among the Benin and Yoruba peoples of Nigeria. It has been said these ancient figures represent the beginnings of West African art. Size: 3.15" W x 7" H (8 cm x 17.8 cm); 7.75" H (19.7 cm) on included custom stand.
Classical Nok terracotta sculpture was first found in 1943 deep within a tin mine, near the present-day town of Nok, situated on the Jos Plateau in central Nigeria. The exact use of these portrait-like figures has yet to be discovered; none of these sculptures has ever been found in situ and any remains of these ancient structures are practically non-existent today. However, it has been suggested the hollow terracotta figures, which this head came from, were ancestral effigies kept in shrine houses.
Provenance: ex-private Pearson collection, Denver, Colorado, USA
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#143192Head is a fragment from a larger sculpture but is itself intact. Nice remaining form and detail. Small chips and nicks commensurate with age, notably one from the nostrils and a few around the lips.Condition
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