Lot 44
  • 44

Colima Postclassic Seated Figure on a Stool, El Chanal, Postclassic, AD 1250 - 1521

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • stone
  • Height: 25 3/4 in (65.4 cm)

Provenance

James Bodisbaugh, Los Angeles
Edwin and Cherie Silver, Los Angeles, acquired from the above between 1969-1970

Inventoried by Hasso von Winning, March 28, 1970, no. 28, and documented by Hasso von Winning, June 18, 1968 (personal communication to Edwin and Cherie Silver)

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, January 27 - June 30, 1975

Literature

Hasso von Winning, 'Der westmexikanische equipal-Stuhl. Ein ethnologisch-archäologischer Vergleich', Indiana, vol. 9, 1984, p. 184, fig. 3c

Catalogue Note

This figure is one of the trio in the Silver collection of the Postclassic El Chanal group; see the discussion in lot 43.

Here the figure is minimally adorned with only the stiff broad collar and a simple headband. However, he sits on a particularly high version of the equipal with the vertical slats well supported on the broad lower frame.