Description:

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Middle Cauca Complex, Quimbaya culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An impressive, hollow-built, and highly abstract pottery nude male figure standing atop wide-set tubular legs with flat soles, all decrorated in red, beige, and black negative-resist motifs. Flattened in form, the stylized figure presents a rectangular body with arms bent at elbows to rest on his stomach as petite genitalia protrude from between his legs. His triangular head rises from square shoulcer presenting a charming contenance of coffee bean-shaped eyes, a curved nose, a slight smile, and rounded ears. This figure is almost infant sized, perhaps used to stand guard in a tomb or as a companion for the deceased. Size: 2.1" L x 6.8" W x 11" H (5.3 cm x 17.3 cm x 27.9 cm)

Provenance: private Stephen and Claudia Kramer collection, Atlanta, Georgia, USA collection; ex-President of the Board of Directors of the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California, USA; ex-Dr. John Hilsabeck estate collection, Orange county, California, USA, collected from 1955 - 1985

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#183662

  • Condition: Slight wobble when placed upright but still able to stand up independent of support. Professionally repaired with restoratio nand repainting over break lines; all done very well and difficult to notice. Age-expected nicks and abrasions to surface as shown, but otherwise has an excellent presentation with nice remaining pigments. Old collection label on underside of proper right foot.

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