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- Vase with standing lord and snake-head pendant
Terracotta …
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- Vase with standing lord and snake-head pendant
Terracotta …
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,800 - €2,200
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Description
- Vase
with standing lord and snake-head pendant
Terracotta with localised polychromy, some chips and small missing pieces, restorations not exceeding 5% of the overall mass of the work, marks of time
Jama-Coaque, Ecuador, c. 500 BC - 500 AD
33.5 x 35.5 x 15 cm
Thermoluminescence analysis Archolabs TL, 26 February 2005
Provenance: Sens Enchères sale, Sens, 22 January 2005, lot no. 105
This work combines an anthropomorphic figure with a container linked by a handle and a tubular conduit, a characteristic feature of products from the Ecuadorian coast. The figure, shown standing with arms raised and mouth open, adopts an expressive posture evoking a speech or ritual action in progress.
The richness of the attributes - elaborate headdress, wide necklaces made up of voluminous pearls, pendant in the shape of a snake's head - underlines his high status. The presence of the snake, recurrent in pre-Columbian iconography, refers to symbolic registers linked to transformation, fertility and natural forces.
The ensemble is characterised by the combination of a utilitarian function and a codified staging, where the frontal aspect, the intensity of the expression and the treatment of the ornamentation structure an immediately legible image. This figure embodies a social or ritual role, in a direct and expressive formal style that is specific to this region.
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