Lot 0065A

Colima Pottery Jar in Form of Hunchback

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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A seated figural vessel, painted a glossy burnt-orange and black, in the shape of a hunchbacked person, seated with arms resting on knees, with a large head that forms the spout. The head has coffee-bean shaped eyes and mouth; a pointed nose and large ears have been pierced and probably once had gold or other metal rings. Figures like this one would have been placed into the tombs dug in shafts beneath Jalisco households where family members were periodically interred; archaeologists believe that they were placed around the edges of the tomb facing inward, as if in conversation with the dead. This figure, with his hunchback, is particularly interesting and very similar to a figure held by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Some scholars attribute the hunched back popular in art from the West Mexican shaft tomb culture to a particular form of tuberculosis that may have been common among them. Size: 5.5" L x 4.5" W x 6" H (14 cm x 11.4 cm x 15.2 cm)

Provenance: Ex-Peter Arnovock collection

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Condition

One leg has a stable crack; otherwise intact, with nice remaining pigment.

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Colima Pottery Jar in Form of Hunchback

Name: Colima Pottery Jar in Form of Hunchback
SKU: 48084203
Price: 450 USD
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