Seated figure · Colombia, Quimbaya · ID: 3038549
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Richard Gill, Orlando, USASize
H: 22,5 cm
H: 8.9 inch
Description
fired clay, black pigment, flat rectangular body with free modelled limbs, simplified facial features marked by a prominent nose with golden nose ring, tattoo markings, surmounted with row of holes which originally held decorative elements, each limb is incised and molded as depicting constricted bands, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion
Comparing literature
Labbé, Armand, Colombia before Columbus, New York 1986, ill. 98 f.