Colima Terracotta Vessel Supported by a Dog - DB.025 (LSO),Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 15" (38.1cm) high,Collection: Pre-Columbian Art,Style:  More »

Colima Terracotta Vessel Supported by a Dog - DB.025 (LSO),Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 15" (38.1cm) high,Collection: Pre-Columbian Art,Style: Colima,Medium: Terra Cotta,Condition: Extra Fine. This charming and well-sculpted zoomorphic vessel was made at the end of the first millennium BC to the early days of the first millennium AD. The subgroup that manufactured the piece are called the Colima, who are part of a group of archaeological cultures – known almost purely from their artworks – referred to as the Western Mexico Shaft Tomb (WMST) tradition. There are many distinct groups within this agglomeration, and their relationships are almost totally obscure due to the lack of contextual information. However, it is the artworks that are the most informative, as we can see from the current piece.   « Less

Colima Seated Figure Vessel - DB.031,Origin: Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 15" (38.1cm) high,Collection: Pre Columbian,Style: Colima,Medium:  More »

Colima Seated Figure Vessel - DB.031,Origin: Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 15" (38.1cm) high,Collection: Pre Columbian,Style: Colima,Medium: Terracotta,Condition: Extra Fine.   « Less

Colima Terracotta Double-Headed Serpent Vessel - CK.0469,Origin: Western MexicoCirca: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 8.25" (21.0cm) high x 8" (20.3cm) wide x 11" (27.9cm)  More »

Colima Terracotta Double-Headed Serpent Vessel - CK.0469,Origin: Western MexicoCirca: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 8.25" (21.0cm) high x 8" (20.3cm) wide x 11" (27.9cm) depth,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Colima,Medium: Terracotta.   « Less

Colima Terracotta Vessel in the Form of a Parrot - CK.0596,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 9.75" (24.8cm) high x 5.75" (14.6cm) wide x 10" (25.4cm)  More »

Colima Terracotta Vessel in the Form of a Parrot - CK.0596,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 9.75" (24.8cm) high x 5.75" (14.6cm) wide x 10" (25.4cm) depth,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Colima,Medium: Terracotta. There are many distinct groups within the agglomeration referred to as the Western Mexico Shaft Tomb (WMST) tradition, foremost among them the Jalisco, Nayarit, and Colima. Their relationships are almost totally obscure due to the lack of contextual information. However, it is the artworks that are the most informative. All of the cultures encompassed under the WMST umbrella were in the habit of burying their dead in socially-stratified burial chambers at the base of deep shafts, which were in turn often topped by buildings. Originally believed to be influenced by the Tarascan people, who were contemporaries of the Aztecs, thermoluminescence has pushed back the dates of these groups over 1000 years. Although the apogee of this tradition was reached in the last centuries of the 1st millennium BC, it has its origins over 1000 years earlier at sites such as Huitzilapa and Teuchitlan, in the Jalisco region. Little is known of the cultures themselves, although preliminary data seems to suggest that they were sedentary agriculturists with social systems not dissimilar to chiefdoms. These cultures are especially interesting to students of Mesoamerican history as they seem to have been to a large extent outside the ebb and flow of more aggressive cultures – such as the Toltecs, Olmecs and Maya – in the same vicinity. Thus insulated from the perils of urbanization, they developed very much in isolation, and it behooves us to learn what we can from what they have left behind.   « Less

Colima Terracotta Vessel in the Form of an Animal - CK.0658,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 8.75" (22.2cm) high x 8" (20.3cm) wide x 13" (33.0cm)  More »

Colima Terracotta Vessel in the Form of an Animal - CK.0658,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 8.75" (22.2cm) high x 8" (20.3cm) wide x 13" (33.0cm) depth,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Colima,Medium: Terracotta.   « Less

Colima Terracotta Vessel in the Form of a Shell - CK.0704,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 4" (10.2cm) high x 7.5" (19.1cm) wide x 9" (22.9cm)  More »

Colima Terracotta Vessel in the Form of a Shell - CK.0704,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 4" (10.2cm) high x 7.5" (19.1cm) wide x 9" (22.9cm) depth,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Colima,Medium: Terracotta.   « Less

Colima Terracotta Bowl - CK.0705,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 7.5" (19.1cm) high x 11" (27.9cm) wide x 11" (27.9cm) depth,Collection:  More »

Colima Terracotta Bowl - CK.0705,Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 7.5" (19.1cm) high x 11" (27.9cm) wide x 11" (27.9cm) depth,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Colima,Medium: Terracotta.   « Less

Tuxcacuesco-Ortices Style Colima Terracotta Sculpture of a Standing Man - PF.0257,Origin: Colima, Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 6.5" (16.5cm) high x 4.25"  More »

Tuxcacuesco-Ortices Style Colima Terracotta Sculpture of a Standing Man - PF.0257,Origin: Colima, Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 6.5" (16.5cm) high x 4.25" (10.8cm) wide,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Tuxcacuesco-Ortices,Medium: Terracotta.   « Less

Tuxcacuesco-Ortices Style Colima Terracotta Sculpture of a Man Holding a Bowl - PF.0260,Origin: Colima, Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 5.75" (14.6cm) high x 2.75"  More »

Tuxcacuesco-Ortices Style Colima Terracotta Sculpture of a Man Holding a Bowl - PF.0260,Origin: Colima, Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 5.75" (14.6cm) high x 2.75" (7.0cm) wide,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Tuxcacuesco-Ortices,Medium: Terracotta. Such charming terracottas reprsent the citizens of ancient Colima: men and women, high-born and low, dancers, atheletes and priests. They reveal in the details of their costumes and gestures much about an otherwise vanished world. Even as we acknowledge the vast gulf between their culture and ours, we recognize the fundamental human qualities we share and which time has not altered.   « Less

Tuxcacuesco-Ortices Style Colima Terracotta Sculpture of a Standing Man - PF.0261,Origin: Colima, Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 7.75" (19.7cm) high x 4.25"  More »

Tuxcacuesco-Ortices Style Colima Terracotta Sculpture of a Standing Man - PF.0261,Origin: Colima, Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions: 7.75" (19.7cm) high x 4.25" (10.8cm) wide,Collection: Pre-Columbian,Style: Tuxcacuesco-Ortices,Medium: Terracotta. Such charming terracotta sculptures represent the citizens of ancient Colima: men and women, high-born and low, dancers, athletes and priests. They reveal in the details of their costumes and gestures much about an otherwise vanished world. Even as we acknowledge the vast gulf between their culture and ours, we recognize the fundamental human qualities we share and which time has not altered.   « Less