Colima, West Mexico
Protoclassic period, 100 BC to 250 AD
Ceramic
Height 13 ½ in (34.3 cm), Length 6 in (15.2 cm)
Provenance: Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The dog sits upright on its haunches with the forelegs straight and the head raised, the ears held erect and pointed. A flared spout rises from the crown of the head, and the muzzle is modeled with a bared row of teeth beneath a lightly incised brow. The tail curls tight against the rear body, and the burnished slip carries the deep orange red tone associated with Colima ceramic sculpture.
Dark blotching runs across the head, back, and haunches, the result of mineral deposits, principally manganese, absorbed during long burial together with clouding produced in the open firing. The mottling reads as part of the surface rather than as staining, varying from fine speckling across the chest and forelegs to broader patches over the hindquarters. Surface variation of this kind is normal in ancient West Mexican pottery and is generally read as evidence of age rather than as a condition fault.
Stendahl Gallery was founded in Los Angeles in 1911 by Earl Stendahl, who began by showing modern European and Californian painting and turned in the 1930s to ancient American art. The gallery became one of the leading American sources for Pre Columbian material, supplying major museum and private collections over several decades, and continues to operate under the family. A Stendahl provenance places a piece within the earliest and best documented period of American collecting in this field.
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Colima, West Mexico
Protoclassic period, 100 BC to 250 AD
Ceramic
Height 13 ½ in (34.3 cm), Length 6 in (15.2 cm)
Provenance: Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The dog sits upright on its haunches with the forelegs straight and the head raised, the ears held erect and pointed. A flared spout rises from the crown of the head, and the muzzle is modeled with a bared row of teeth beneath a lightly incised brow. The tail curls tight against the rear body, and the burnished slip carries the deep orange red tone associated with Colima ceramic sculpture.
Dark blotching runs across the head, back, and haunches, the result of mineral deposits, principally manganese, absorbed during long burial together with clouding produced in the open firing. The mottling reads as part of the surface rather than as staining, varying from fine speckling across the chest and forelegs to broader patches over the hindquarters. Surface variation of this kind is normal in ancient West Mexican pottery and is generally read as evidence of age rather than as a condition fault.
Stendahl Gallery was founded in Los Angeles in 1911 by Earl Stendahl, who began by showing modern European and Californian painting and turned in the 1930s to ancient American art. The gallery became one of the leading American sources for Pre Columbian material, supplying major museum and private collections over several decades, and continues to operate under the family. A Stendahl provenance places a piece within the earliest and best documented period of American collecting in this field.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
