Standing Female Figure - South America, Inka - Oct 18, 2014 | Kunstauktionshaus Zemanek-muenster In Germany
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Standing female figure - South America, Inka
Standing female figure - South America, Inka
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light wood, middle brown patina, flat armless body, a proportionally large head with projecting nose, eyes and mouth marked by incisions, minor missing parts, traces of old age and weathering, base;
the accentuated sexual characteristics shall refer to the renewable forces of the big mother, the goddess of earth. The figurines often were clothed and their faces painted in red; the colour red is regarded as colour of life.
H: 31 cm, ca. 1000 - 1200 AD
Provenance:
Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart, Germany
Published in:
Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 103 (131)
Continent: The Americas
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Standing female figure - South America, Inka

Estimate €300 - €500
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