Description:

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Middle Cauca / Quimbaya culture, ca. 11th to 12th century CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery nude male slab figure with thick arms, legs, and a planar body with a flat base, a deeply incised neckline, and a rectangular head bearing a prominent nose and slit-form eyes and lips. Several perforations line the upper chest and back, forehead, and top of the head, perhaps for additional ornamentation, and remains of white pigment are visible across the face. Slab figures like this example were placed with burial offerings in shaft and chamber tombs, perhaps as guardians or companions for the deceased. Size: 6.5" L x 3.75" W x 8" H (16.5 cm x 9.5 cm x 20.3 cm)

Provenance: private Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA collection, acquired in Colombia in the 1970s

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#188895

  • Condition: Chips to the verso base of the body. Stable hairline fissures, but otherwise intact and excellent. Manganese deposits across nearly the whole surface and good remains of pigment.

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