Description:

Pre-Columbian, Colombia to Ecuador (Carchi) region, Narino Highlands, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. A fine pair of matched anthropomorphic pottery vessels depicting a seated man and woman. The female has delineated genitalia, perky breasts, and sinuous arms draped beneath her distended abdomen indicative of pregnancy. The male, a coquero (coca-chewer) based on the large cheek bulge, stretches his arms to beneath his chin and gaping mouth. Each figure has coffee-bean-shaped eyes, prominent noses with delineated nostrils, thin lips, pointed hair lines, and textured coiffures colored with pale-orange pigment. Both figures exhibit characteristic negative-resist black-on-red geometric motifs across their exterior surfaces and imbue them with a colorful presentation common throughout the ancient Narino Highlands! Size of largest (female): 3" W x 5.375" H (7.6 cm x 13.7 cm).

Provenance: private San Francisco, California, USA collection

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#143090

  • Condition: Both figures have repairs to part or all of both arms. Each item has minor abrasions and nicks to base, body, and head, with fading to original pigmentation, and light encrustations within some recessed areas. Nice earthen deposits and craquelure to pigmentation throughout.

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