Online catalogue for the 65th tribal art auction

51 Figural urn

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Mexico, Maya, El Quiche

ceramic, reddish brown surface with traces of black paint, encrusted with dirt in some areas, cylindrical chamber behind a seated figure, he is molded with strong brow, shoulders, arms, his head with headdress and ear spools and strong Mayan nose, dam., minor missing parts

H: 15,5 cm, ca. 600 AD
H: 6.1 inch, ca. 600 AD

Provenance
Private Collection, Miami, USA

Sold.

52 Seated couple

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Mexico, Nayarit, Ixlan de Rio

red clay, white paint, a hollow male and female figure, both with open mouth, each holding a vessel in their hands, both painted, showing pierced ears and a vent-hole on top of the head, rep., min. dam., slight traces of abrasion; the left hand of the woman up to the shoulder. This is a common gesture of female figures made by West Coast cultures. It is supposed to be a hint on female fertility.

H: 22,5 cm resp. 23,5 cm, ~ 200 BC - 300 AD
H: 8.9 inch resp. 9.3 inch, ~ 200 BC - 300 AD

Provenance
Elsford Collection, California, USA

Literature
Leyenaar, Ted u.a., Von Küste zu Küste, o.O. 1992, p. 310, ill. 288

Sold.

53 Seated female figure

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Mexico, Zacatecas

terracotta, partly painted in red, the body decorated with vertical black lines, typical abstractedZacatecas hollow female figure with hands placed to the waist, the figure is nude, ears are pierced, protruding buttocks, vent hole in the navel, slightly dam.

H: 26 cm, ca. 300 BC/AD.
H: 10.2 inch, ca. 300 BC/AD.

Provenance
Private Collection, Boston, USA

Literature
Leyenaar, Ted u.a., Von Küste zu Küste, o.O. 1992, ill. 271

Sold.

54 Jaguar vessel

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Costa Rica, Nicoya

terracotta, polychrome paint, resting on three hollowed legs, filled with nuts or seeds for rattling, elaborate paintings in the area of legs, arms, head and rim, min. dam., small missing parts, rep. (?), paint rubbed off in parts; deriving from geographic region of Guanacaste in Costa Rica, archaeologically belonging to the so called Panaky polychrome style, dating in the Middle polychrome period (around 850-1200 A.D.). It remains still unclear what the Nicoya connection is with the jaguar. Because of its frequent appearance on material remains of this culture it is likely that it played a very prominent role within religion and mythology.

H: 30,5 cm, ~ 1200 A.D.
H: 12 inch, ~ 1200 A.D.

Provenance
Private Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Coll. Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany

Expertise
Thermolumineszenz-Gutachten Labor R. Kotalla, Nr. 18431 vom 2.3.1984 und Gutachten von Fritz Jäger, Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, liegen vor

Literature
Alcina, José, Die Kunst des Alten Amerika, Freiburg 1982, ill. 163

Sold.

55 Seated figure

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Colombia, Quimbaya

fired red clay, flat rectangular body with free modelled limbs, simplified facial features marked by a prominent nose with copper nose ring, drilled holes, min. dam., fissures, minor missing parts; the Quimbaya people reached their apogee during the 4th to 7th century A.D. a period known as "The Quimbaya Classic". Around the 10th century A.D. the Quimbaya culture disappeared entirely due to unknown circumstances. Most of the retrieved items are part of funeral offerings, found inside of sarcophagi made of hollow trunks. Most of them are made of gold, which represented a sacred metal and the passport for the afterlife.

H: 19,5 cm, ~ 500 - 800 A.D.
H: 7.7 inch, ~ 500 - 800 A.D.

Provenance
Al Stendahl (1960's)
Coll. Carl Allen, Los Angeles, USA

Sold.

56 Pectoral

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Colombia, Tairona

green stone, stylized form, flattened, piercing atop for suspension, dam., chips, drilled hole loose

L: 21 cm; H: 5 cm
L: 8.3 inch; H: 2 inch

Price: 350 - 800 €

57 Zoomorphic receptacle in shape of a jaguar

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Ecuador, Chorrera

ceramic, painted in red, a broad and bulky body with a large round opening on top, open mouth with tapering teeth, slightly dam.; Americas most powerful beast of prey, the jaguar, respectively the puma, impressed the natives of the New World ever since. Especially in the early cultures of Middle and South America, and in Ecuador as well, the wild cat enjoyed divine veneration, which was expressed by art works, like the present vessel.

H: 12,5 cm; L: 24 cm
H: 4.9 inch; L: 9.4 inch

Price: 2500 - 5000 €

58 dropped

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59 Female figure

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Ecuador, Chorrera

ceramic, shiny brown and red paint in some areas, partly matt greyish-white fabricwith traces of black, hollowed, if the spherical headdress represents a kind of helmet or an artificial deformation of the skull can not be determined, dam., missing part

H: 27,5 cm, ~ 1200 - 300 B. C.
H: 10.8 inch, ~ 1200 - 300 B. C.

Literature
Ecuador, Gold und Terrakotten, Wien 1990, p. 36

Price: 1500 - 3000 €

60 Figure of a warrior

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Ecuador, Chorrera

ceramic, partly natural coloured, partly painted in red and decorated with incised patterns, a high towering flat head (presumably depicting an artificial deformed skull), the Asiatic (?) features characteristic for the art of the Chorrera, metal base; Chorrera is a name of a pre-Columbian archaeological culture located in the lower course of the Guayas River (Ecuador) between 1800 B.C. and 300 B.C. This culture exerted essential influence on a great part of Ecuador’s territory reaching the Amazon region.

H: 27,5 cm, ca. 1200 - 300 B. C.
H: 10.8 inch, ca. 1200 - 300 B. C.

Literature
Ecuador, Gold und Terrakotten, Wien 1990, p. 35

Price: 3000 - 6000 €