Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A nice selection of 3 hand-built pottery items from ancient Colima. First is a pair of pottery stamp seals: one depicting an abstract hummingbird head, and the second depicting an entire abstract hummingbird. The largest piece is a pottery figure of a nude female prisoner who is bound to the top of a table and with horizontal planks beneath her body. Size of largest (figure): 2.39" L x 1.44" W (6.1 cm x 3.7 cm)

Provenance: private Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA collection; ex-Dr. David Harner collection, Springdale, Arkansas, USA, acquired between the 1950s to 1960s

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#162530

  • Condition: Small chip to periphery of figure's table as shown; both stamps are intact and very good. Each piece has minor abrasions and nicks. Nice earthen deposits throughout.

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