Material : terracotta
Origin : Colombia / Ecuador
Culture : Tumaco/La Tolita
Era : 400 BC / 500 AD

Condition : bon

Dimensions : 6-1/4'' H

Price : 710 €

 

Beautiful figurine representing a stand up woman, with arms up against the body and inner hands turned outside as a sign of godliness. Tumaco typical ceramic with skull’s ritual deformation, very common in Andean Pre-Colombian civilizations. This figurine is wearing jewels: earnings and a large necklace with pendant. Clothes are very simple: two textiles with a belt, covering lower part of the body. This type of clothes was worn by men and women. In spite of no face’s expression, we can note a great care to anatomic details: face’s delicacy, chest, paunchy stomach… The back of the figurine is not well modelled because it was done only to be seen from one side.
Provenance: ex. private french collection.

 

Bibliography
D. Lavallé, L. G. Lumbreras, « Les Andes, de la Préhistoire aux Incas », p. 102 à 119, L’Univers des Formes, Paris, 1985.