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Colima Female Effigy Vessel - PF.1116
Origin: Western Mexico
Circa: 300
BC
to 300
AD
Dimensions:
18.5" (47.0cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Style: Colima
Medium: Terracotta
£9,000.00
Location: UAE
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| Description |
Colima ceramics are famous for their beautiful
light orange to deep red burnished slip, with
black patina spotting the surface. Just as
charming are the style and subject matter of the
objects. This lovely vessel shows a figure who is
human from the waist up and a gourd below. The
breasts of the person protrude enough to
suggest a female, though the face is more
masculine. The arms are held tightly to the sides
and appear to be bound by a series of bracelets
around the middle portion, though these
probably represent ornaments. He or she
appears to be rising from the gourd, perhaps as
a spirit or deity of the plant kingdom. The gourd
itself is very nicely fashioned with delicate ridges
and slightly varying coloration. Though mythical
in conception there is something very endearing,
and yet mysterious about this vessel. It is this
contrast which makes an object a work of art,
along with its purely aesthetic beauty.
- (PF.1116)
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