Register Auction 105
Zemanek-Münster

Seated hunchback, ca. 300 BC - 200 AD ·  Mexico, Colima · ID: 3052455

Starting price EUR 800
Estimated price EUR 1,500
Provenance
Boyd Stifler, Vanderwagen, New Mexico, USA
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 5 March 2011, lot 63
A. & B. Schirmer, Berlin, Germany
Size
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch

Description

ceramic, handwritten collection no. “56.239”

Figures with physical deformities are known to have played an important role, socially and ritually, in Mesoamerican life. Hunchbacks and dwarves, for example, had a special position at court as jesters, musicians and dancers. In Maya mythology they were associated with the underworld.


Notices

This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).


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