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Description : Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A wonderful hollow-built redware pottery figural vessel depicting a male dwarf seated upon a flat base with curved, attenuated legs. The highly burnished figure suffers from a severe case of dwarfism made evident by his dramatic, forward-leaning posture as well as his malformed spine which almost protrudes through his back making for a hunchback appearance. Short, bent arms extend downwards from rounded shoulders, and a squat neck supports the enlarged head. Incised ovoid eyes, an upturned nose with delineated nostrils, separated lips, and tab-shaped ears comprise the stylized visage, and a protruding forehead gradually tapers to a flared spout rim. In Pre-Columbian times, the deformities of hunchbacked people were believed to be signs from the divine that they were in fact special, chosen individuals who were touched by the supernatural. Size: 8.3 W x 13.2 H (21.1 cm x 33.5 cm). Hunchback and dwarf individuals are very common in Colima sculpture - indeed, they heavily outnumber portrayals of women (and some have theorized that this relates to their relatively high social status in the society). Some scholars attribute the hunched back in West Mexican shaft tomb culture to a particular form of tuberculosis, the protruding shoulders of this example may be part of the figure's deformity or the result of an emaciated state. For a stylistically-similar example, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number X.2.431: Another stylistically-similar example of a slightly larger size hammered for EUR 8,812 ($9,819.65) at Christie's, Paris Art Africain, Oceanien et Precolombien auction (sale 5068, December 10, 2003, lot 484): Provenance: ex-Merrin Gallery, New York, New York, USA, ex-private American collection, acquired in the 1980s All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #148146
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