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Lot 132
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Couple anthropomorphe assis Culture Nayarit Style de Ixtlán del Río, Mexique occidental Protoclassique, 100 av. J.-C.-250 ap. J.-C.

Estimate
50,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Culture Nayarit
  • Couple anthropomorphe assis
  • Céramique à engobe rouge-brique et décor polychrome – test de thermoluminescence
  • h. 45,8 cm ; 18 in

Provenance

Collection Josef Mueller, Soleure, acquis d’Earl Stendahl vers 1952
Collection Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Inv. n° 504-14

Exhibited

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, 30 janvier-24 mars 1992, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, 11 avril-15 juin 1992, Barcelone, Fondation la Caixa, 25 novembre 1992-24 janvier 1993, Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992
Lisbonne, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 23 mars-4 juin 1995
Barcelone, Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombí, 30 octobre-avril 2004, Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, 25 juin-24 octobre 2004, Trésors de la céramique précolombienne du Museo Barbier-Mueller de Arte Precolombino de Barcelona

Literature

Von Winning (Hasso), Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, 1968, fig. 181, p. 140
Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492 - 1992, 1992, pl. 34, p. 229
Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 1995, pl. 34
Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, 2000, cat. 34, p. 267
Trésors de la céramique précolombienne du Museo Barbier-Mueller de Arte Precolombino de Barcelona, 2003, cat. 27, p. 161

Condition

Bon état de conservation, éclats visibles et restauration de la nariguera de l'épouse. Nombreuses oxydations Good condition overall, visible chips and restoration to the wife's nariguera. Several traces of oxidation
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