Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 20th September 2023
Lot 1176
A Chorrera standing female figure
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £1700
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Description
A Chorrera standing female figure
Ecuador, circa 1800 - 500 BC
pottery, the hollow nude figure with a rounded headdress, coffee bean eyes and mouth, with earspools and black pigment decoration, the lower part of the body with a red glaze and incised linear decoration, 37.5cm high.
Provenance
Anne-Marie Reinhart, Zurich, with a thermoluminescence certificate from Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, Germany, dated 24th November 1987, No. 358711 (inscribed to the back of the right ear.)
Romy Rey Collection, London.