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Lot 29
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Hacha, oiseau au bec crochu Culture Veracruz Côte du Golfe, Mexique Classique, 550-950 ap. J.-C.

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Culture Veracruz
  • Hacha, oiseau au bec crochu
  • Andésite gris-brun à surface abrasive
  • h. 23 cm ; 9 in

Provenance

Collection G. Dübi-Müller, acquis d’Earl Stendahl vers 1950
Collection Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Inv. n° 507-3

Exhibited

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Art de l’Amérique précolombienne, automne 1981
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, mai-juin 2005, Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, juin 2005, Aves y Felinos: artes comparadas. Birds and Felins: compared arts

Literature

Von Winning (Hasso), Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, 1968, fig. 293, p. 213
Art de l’Amérique précolombienne, 1981, fig. 14, p. 29
Barbier (Jean Paul), Oiseaux: trente sculptures en bois, en métal et en pierre, accompagnées de trente sculptures en mots, 1984, pl. 22
Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992, 1992, pl. 62, p. 259
Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 1995, pl. 62
Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, 2000, cat. 62, p. 297
Aves y Felinos: artes comparadas. Birds and Felins: compared arts, 2005, p. 24-25

Condition

Hacha sans restauration particulière, petite usure visible au niveau du tenon, éclat visible sur le nez du volatile Hacha without restoration, a little wear visible on the tenon, chip visible on the nose of the bird
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