115^C. Chupicuaro Anthropomorphic Pre-Columbian Figurine, Michoacan Culture, ca. 600 - 800 AD.

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115^C. Chupicuaro Anthropomorphic Pre-Columbian Figurine, Michoacan Culture, ca. 600 - 800 AD.

Starting price:

EUR 1.000

Sold

EUR 3.000

References

Rosemary A. Joyce; Surrounded by Beauty: Central America before 1500; Revealing Ancestral Central America; Washington; 2015; 13-21; p. 21; fig. 21 S. Salgado Gonzales, L.A. Sanchez, M.J. Smakis; Pre-Columbian arts from Central America. In the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Barcelona. Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; Paris; 2001; p. 205; p. 205; cat. 30

h=8.5 cm

Research information

The object was exhibited in Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, the exhibition "Man-eaters and pretty ladies: early art in Central Mexico, from the Gulf to the Pacific, 1500 BC to 500 AD", January 15 - March 8, 1971 and was reproduced in "Man-eaters and pretty ladies: early art in Central Mexico, from the Gulf to the Pacific, 1500 BC to 500 AD", 1971, cat. 649, p. 87.

PROVENANCE

Guy Joussemet Collection, Montréal, before 1970 Barbier-Mueller Collection, Geneva, Inventory No. 500-17 Sotheby's Auction, France, 03.22.2013, lot 20

Anthropomorphic figurine made of fine polished ceramic, covered in white slip. The hairstyle is cut straight around the face, with parallel strands and double eyes; rectangular mouth; in her ears she wears snail shell-shaped earrings; around her neck she wears a necklace made of shells distributed on two successive strands, made of ceramic and painted with red color. A hole incised with a sharp object indicates the navel. The extremities of the lower and upper limbs are marked by parallel punctures.

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