Rare and impressive hollow feline head, wide-open mouth, vis - Lot 158

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Rare and impressive hollow feline head, wide-open mouth, vis - Lot 158
Rare and impressive hollow feline head, wide-open mouth, visible fangs, cabochon-shaped rimmed eyes, frontal crest and ornamental scrolls modeled on the cheeks; probable architectural ornament or large vessel. Modelled ceramic, grey-brown paste with light grey slip. (broken: missing posterior part and crest, surface erosion, small chips). Tumaco, 500 B.C. - 200 A.D. Colombia (southwest Pacific coast). Height: 19.5 cm Provenance: sale C. Boisgirard A. de Heeckeren sale, "Antiquitéspréhispaniques", Drouot Rive Gauche, Paris, June 15, 1979, lot 45 (auction record attached). Publication: catalog of the above sale, cat. no. 45.
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