Sculpture of a Jama-Coaque chieftain
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AR3052
| Object: |
Sculpture of a man from the Jama-Coaque culture
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| Material: |
Clay.
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| Period: |
355 BC to 400 AD. Earliest phase of the Jama-Coaque culture in Ecuador. The date was verified by a thermoluminescence analysis by laboratory Kotalla from 2015. The report comes with this object. |
| Description: |
Sculpture of a seated man, hollow out of clay. He is a chieftain of the Ecuadorian Jama-Coaque culture, with distinctive headgear and large discoid earrings, as well as nose and chin adornments. Depicted is the ritual of coca leaves preparation for which the chief uses the utensils in his hands.
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| Dimensions: |
19cm height.
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| Condition: |
Part of the left ear, the object in the left hand and the rear of the head missing. Otherwise only minor chips and restoration at the head, very good overall condition. Sticker with print "49" on the bottom side.
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| Provenance: |
Acquired by us in 2020 on the German art market. Previously in the German private collection of Dr. W. G. Sold at Gorny & Mosch auction 256, Muenchen, of 2018 June 26th, lot no. 544 (low estimate of 750 Euro excl. fees), as well as Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger auction 330, Muenchen, of 2017 Sept. 19th, lot no. 72 (low estimate of 750 Euro excl. fees). Previously in the German private collection H.-J. Westermann, acquired for the collection in the 1960s. Hans-Juergen Westermann developed an interest in the ancient cultures of America during his business trips to Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s. He built an extensive collection in the 1960s based on purchases of smaller collections from Ecuador and Costa Rica, as well as an important Costa Rica collection in Germany. Between 1991 and 1995 the Westermann Collection was loaned to Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt am Main Germany and afterwards contractually curated by the bank. In 2017, the collection was returned to the art collecting community by Muenchen (Germany) based auctioneer Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger. |
| References: |
Cf. a similar piece in the pre-columbian collection of the
Casa Museo Guayasamín in Cáceres, Spain.
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| Literature: |
E. Estrada, Prehistoria de Manabí. C. Evans und B. Meggers, Mesoamerica and Ecuador, in Handbook of Middle American Indians. |
| Authenticity: |
We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of every artefact, all items are subject to our lifetime return policy on authenticity.
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