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Lot 31
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Joug, ceinture votive décorée d’un batracien stylisé Culture Veracruz Côte du Golfe, Mexique Classique, 600-900 ap. J.-C.

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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Description

  • Culture Veracruz
  • Joug, ceinture votive décorée d’un batracien stylisé
  • Pierre dure gris-vert et restes de cinabre
  • h. 9 cm ; 3 1/4 in et l. 44 cm ; 17 1/4 in

Provenance

Collection Josef Mueller, Soleure, avant 1952
Collection Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Inv. n° 507-19

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

Literature

Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992, 1992, pl. 59, p. 256
Arte pre-colombiana da colecçao Barbier-Mueller, 1995, pl. 45
Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, 2000, cat. 59, p. 294
Barbier-Mueller (Jean Paul), Fauria (Carmen), Guide de l’art précolombien, 1997, fig. 42, fig. 57

Condition

Joug cassé en deux et restauré sur la partie médiane de façon visible, sans aucune modification de la forme du joug Yoke broken in two and restored at the middle in a visible manner, without changing the shape of the yoke at all
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