A RARE COLIMA ANECDOTAL INCENSARIO IN THE FORM OF A MODEL TEMPLE SURMOUNTED BY A COATIMUNDI.
Anthropos Gallery
This unique square ceramic incensario top, in the form of a temple with four arched portals, has three walls with incised designs along three top edges, with a tubular arch, which may serve as a handle, spanning the center of the roof. A coatimundi is lying on the roof holding his long snout in his paws. Excellent condition with manganese oxide deposits and other ancient encrustations.
SOLD
Artwork details
Origin
Colima, Ancient West Coast Culture., Colima, Mexico., Protoclassic, circa 100 B.C. to A.D. 250.Very good
Dimension
H 9.5IN x W 6.1IN x L 6.3IN
H 24.13CM x W 15.494CM x L 16.002CM
Provenance
Acquired from the personal collection of the late Armand Labbe`, author of several reference books of renown on Pre-Columbian art, and former Curator of Ethnographic Art at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California.
Condition
Very good.