Description:

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Jamacoaque culture, ca. 500 CE. A set of 3 hand-built figures from the ancient Jamacoaque culture. First is a petite seated figure with colorful pigment. Second is a redware figure with parted lips and a nodule-adorned cap. The largest is an emaciated figure, perhaps an elderly cacique, seated with crossed legs. Size of largest: 3.5" L x 4.5" W x 7.875" H (8.9 cm x 11.4 cm x 20 cm)

Provenance: private Everett, Massachusetts, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery; (smallest): private Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA collection; ex-Minerva Gallery; ex-Benjamin Vega, California, USA, acquired in 2006 to 2007; ex-Gene and Virginia George, brought to the USA from 1961 to 1966; (redware): private California, USA collection, acquired in 2004; ex-private Gill family collection, Pebble Beach, California, USA, acquired in 1980; ex-Colonel William R. Cameron (Ret.) collection, California, USA, acquired in 1965 to 1968; exhibited in "Artifacts of Ecuador: Collection of Col. William R. Cameron (Ret.), Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, January 8 to 29, 1977; (largest): private Utah, USA collection

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#184476

  • Condition: Largest with repair to one leg; redware figure with repair to one headdress cone and loss to another; and smallest with repairs to right side of body. Nice variety of forms.

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