Pre-Columbian
West Mexico, a burnished clay figure placed with care in the ground. It is still waiting.
Pre-Columbian art spans Mexico, Central America and the Andes. From West Mexico come the burnished terra cotta figures of the Colima and Nayarit; from Peru, Chancay standing figures in cream and black slip, Moche figural vessels, Nazca polychrome, Chimu blackware and Inca pieces. Coclé potters of Panama painted fruteros, pedestal bowls, with fish, birds and humans on cream grounds between about 150 BC and AD 800. Maya Copador bowls come from the Copán valley of Honduras and El Salvador. The Tairona of Colombia and the peoples of Costa Rica made eagle pendants in stone and shell. Framed Chancay textile fragments in wool and cotton bring in Andean weaving.
Most date from about 100 BC to the fifteenth century. Slip, pigment and burnished clay glow under low light.
A Colima figure on a mantel, patient as ever.
In the collection now: Vessel Depicting Seated Figure, Peruvian Chino or Effigy Vessel, and Mexican Cylinder Vessel with Animal Spot Motif.
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