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Lot 45
  • 45

Tête d’une statue Culture Huaxtèque Nord-est du Mexique 1100-1400 ap. J-C.

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Culture Huaxtèque
  • Tête d’une statue
  • Calcaire couleur sable à surface rugueuse
  • h. 31 cm ; 12 1/4 in

Provenance

Collection Josef Mueller, Soleure, acquis d’Earl Stendahl, vers 1950
Collection Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Inv. n° 508-1

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

Literature

Art de l’Amérique précolombienne, 1981, fig. 15, p. 30
Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992, 1992, pl. 73, p. 270
Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 1995, pl. 73
Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, 2000, cat. 73, p. 308
Jeffrey (S.), Wilkerson (K.), " Esculturas huastecas: el arte en piedra de la frontera nororiental de Mesoamérica. Huastec sculptures: stones art on the northeastern frontier of Mesoamerica ", in Precolombart, n° 3, 2000, fig. 1, p. 34

Condition

Tête fracturée de façon visible sans restauration apparente Head with a visible fracture, no apparent signs of restoration
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