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THBMuseum Exhibited Chorrera Pottery House Effigy Vessel
Lot 71
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Artemis Fine Arts
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Fine Arts
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Featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. Artemis Fine Arts info@artemisfinearts.com
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 9th to 4th century BCE. A hand-built pottery effigy vessel in the form of a large domicile resting atop a flared foot. The rectangular house sits on an integral plinth and has a singular doorway, a slanted roof with projecting central corners, and a cylindrical spout with a flared rim. The highly-burnished vessel boasts a cream-hued ground atop which swaths of vermilion pigment accentuate the plinth, roof line, and spout. Size: 4.375" W x 6.25" H (11.1 cm x 15.9 cm).
Exhibited in "Artifacts of Ecuador: Collection of Col. William R. Cameron (Ret.), Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, January 8 to 29, 1977
Provenance: private California, USA collection, acquired in 2004; ex-private Gill family collection, Pebble Beach, California, USA, acquired in 1980; ex-Colonel William R. Cameron (Ret.) collection, California, USA, acquired in 1965 to 1968; exhibited in "Artifacts of Ecuador: Collection of Col. William R. Cameron (Ret.), Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, January 8 to 29, 1977
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#145206Losses to spout rim, areas of roof line and plinth, and base, with fading and chipping to original pigmentation, and light encrustations. Light earthen deposits and great traces of original pigmentation throughout. Old inventory labels beneath base.Condition
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