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Seated maternity cross-legged Orange-beige terracotta. One a…
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101
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Seated maternity cross-legged Orange-beige terracotta. One a…
See original version (French)
Estimate €120 - €180
Voluntary lot
Description
Seated maternity
cross-legged
Orange-beige terracotta. One arm broken and glued. Marks of time.
Colima, western Mexico, 100 BC - 250 AD
Height: 10.5 cm; Width: 7.5 cm; Width: 5 cm
Provenance: Sale Paris, Drouot, Maître Loudmer, 02/07/1969, no. 111.
The Colima culture, which flourished in western Mexico between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD, is famous for the quality of its terracotta production, which includes human figures, animal representations and scenes of daily life. The modelling is characteristically soft, the result of remarkable technical mastery.
Maternity figures occupy a special place in this collection. The woman depicted, adorned with ornaments and carefully coiffed, bears visible signs of her rank within the community. Beyond the social status she embodies, the softness of her forms and the tenderness of her posture underline the protective and symbolic dimensions of motherhood, seen as a vector for the continuity of the lineage and the transmission of life.
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