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A Chinesco male figure, Type E, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C-A.D. 250
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
holding a small bowl in the right hand, the face marked by black eyemask, scarified jowls and pointed goatee, his finely striated coiffure cropped into a zigzag pattern on the forehead and secured with a red headband encasing the long plait down the back, wearing a loincloth and nose ring.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1970s
Exhibited
Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum, Companions of the Dead, Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, October 11-November 27, 1983, fig. 163
Chicago,The Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient West Mexico, Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, September 5-November 22, 1998, continuing to
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 20, 1998- March 29, 1999, cat. no. 219
Literature
Jacki Gallagher, Companions of the Dead, Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico, 1983, fig. 163
Richard Townsend, ed. Ancient West Mexico, Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, 1998, p. 86, cat. no. 219
Catalogue Note
The posture and face of this style of Chinesco is perhaps a precursor to the old fire god Huehueteotl; also see Holsbeke and Arnaut (1998: fig. 101) for a figure with similar hair plait.