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Superb Colima Seated Figure of a Chief,
Comala Style, Protoclassic, 100 BC - AD 250
Comala Style, Protoclassic, 100 BC - AD 250
21 November – 5 December 2024, 12:00 PST
Online, Los AngelesUS$40,000 - US$60,000
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Superb Colima Seated Figure of a Chief,
Comala Style, Protoclassic, 100 BC - AD 250
Comala Style, Protoclassic, 100 BC - AD 250
Terracotta with shiny burnished surface
Height 15in (38.5cm)
Provenance
James Bodisbaugh Collection, Los Angeles
Edwin and Cherie Silver Collection, Los Angeles, acquired from the above between 1968-1969
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Edwin & Cherie Silver, 13 November 2017, Lot 29
Private Collection, United States
Inventoried by Hasso von Winning, March 28, 1970, no. 24
Literature
Gallagher, Jacki, Companions of the Dead: Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, Los Angeles, 1983, p. 47, fig. 32
Townsend, Richard, ed., Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, Chicago, 1998, p. 177, fig. 17
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, January 28 - June 30, 1975, (ex. 75.22)
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, Companions of the Dead: Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, 11 October - 27 November 1983
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, 5 September 1998 - 22 November 1998, continuing to
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 20 December 1998 - 29 March 1999
As noted by Jacki Gallagher (Ibid., p. 40), "The most characteristic Colima headdress consists of a horizontal band looping around a horn projecting above the forehead and a vertical band running across the top of the head and passing under the chin. As discussed earlier, this headdress appears to be a shamanic emblem, and does not occur in Jalisco or Nayarit. . . A particularly distinctive necklace is comprised of a number (usually five or seven) [seven in the presented work] of large, ovoid forms, probably made of shell. these are generally associated with horned males."
Height 15in (38.5cm)
Provenance
James Bodisbaugh Collection, Los Angeles
Edwin and Cherie Silver Collection, Los Angeles, acquired from the above between 1968-1969
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Edwin & Cherie Silver, 13 November 2017, Lot 29
Private Collection, United States
Inventoried by Hasso von Winning, March 28, 1970, no. 24
Literature
Gallagher, Jacki, Companions of the Dead: Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, Los Angeles, 1983, p. 47, fig. 32
Townsend, Richard, ed., Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, Chicago, 1998, p. 177, fig. 17
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, January 28 - June 30, 1975, (ex. 75.22)
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, Companions of the Dead: Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, 11 October - 27 November 1983
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, 5 September 1998 - 22 November 1998, continuing to
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 20 December 1998 - 29 March 1999
As noted by Jacki Gallagher (Ibid., p. 40), "The most characteristic Colima headdress consists of a horizontal band looping around a horn projecting above the forehead and a vertical band running across the top of the head and passing under the chin. As discussed earlier, this headdress appears to be a shamanic emblem, and does not occur in Jalisco or Nayarit. . . A particularly distinctive necklace is comprised of a number (usually five or seven) [seven in the presented work] of large, ovoid forms, probably made of shell. these are generally associated with horned males."
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