Colima, West Mexico
Protoclassic period, 100 BC to 250 AD
Ceramic
Height 13 in (33 cm)
Provenance: Sidney Newman, Beverly Hills, California, acquired in the 1960s
The figure sits with the legs extended forward and slightly bent, the hands resting against the thighs, the head turned and lifted. A pronounced hump rises from the upper back and carries into the swelling of the vessel chamber, which is finished with a short cylindrical spout at the crown. The shins are flattened into a blade like profile, a deformation carried through both legs and modeled with the same care as the rest of the body.
An incised line runs across the brow and around the head to indicate a close fitting cap, and the ears are set with applied discs, each pierced through the lobe. The face is worked with a long nose, narrow eyes, and thin parted lips, while paired incised bands encircle the upper arms and the waist. Red slip was applied to the dried clay and burnished to the soft lustre still visible across the shoulders and thighs, with mineral deposits remaining in the incised lines and along the feet.
Sidney Newman was a collector of Pre Columbian art based in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, active from the 1960s. He supplied the photography and the catalogue for Hasso von Winning's The Shaft Tomb Figures of West Mexico, published as Southwest Museum Papers Number 24 in 1974 and still the standard reference on the ceramic sculpture of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit. Objects from his collection are documented within the earliest period of serious American scholarship on West Mexican shaft tomb material.
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Colima, West Mexico
Protoclassic period, 100 BC to 250 AD
Ceramic
Height 13 in (33 cm)
Provenance: Sidney Newman, Beverly Hills, California, acquired in the 1960s
The figure sits with the legs extended forward and slightly bent, the hands resting against the thighs, the head turned and lifted. A pronounced hump rises from the upper back and carries into the swelling of the vessel chamber, which is finished with a short cylindrical spout at the crown. The shins are flattened into a blade like profile, a deformation carried through both legs and modeled with the same care as the rest of the body.
An incised line runs across the brow and around the head to indicate a close fitting cap, and the ears are set with applied discs, each pierced through the lobe. The face is worked with a long nose, narrow eyes, and thin parted lips, while paired incised bands encircle the upper arms and the waist. Red slip was applied to the dried clay and burnished to the soft lustre still visible across the shoulders and thighs, with mineral deposits remaining in the incised lines and along the feet.
Sidney Newman was a collector of Pre Columbian art based in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, active from the 1960s. He supplied the photography and the catalogue for Hasso von Winning's The Shaft Tomb Figures of West Mexico, published as Southwest Museum Papers Number 24 in 1974 and still the standard reference on the ceramic sculpture of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit. Objects from his collection are documented within the earliest period of serious American scholarship on West Mexican shaft tomb material.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
