21.02.2013 Views

PRECOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz

PRECOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz

PRECOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

194<br />

RARE CALIMA EMERALD PENDANT<br />

Ca. A. D. 200-400<br />

The miniature version of an anthropomorphic<br />

fi gure of a double-spouted alcarraza; drilled with<br />

a suspension hole.<br />

Height 1.6 cm<br />

Cf. Colombia Before Columbus, fi g. 39, for an identical<br />

terracotta version.<br />

€ 2 000 – 3 000<br />

195<br />

CARCHI FIGURAL GROUP<br />

Ca. A. D. 500-1500<br />

The male seated on a bench and balancing a child<br />

on his right knee, with a wad of coca bulging from<br />

his left cheek, painted in reddish brown; together<br />

with a Nicoya seated fi gurine, a Carchi female in a<br />

birthing pose, and the fragment of Nicoya vessel.<br />

(4)<br />

Heights 19.5 to 7.6 cm<br />

See illustration of the Coca Chewer<br />

€ 1 000 – 1 500<br />

113

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!