A Teotihuacan Tecali Figure

Circa 200-600 A.D.

Height 7 inches (17.78 cm).

Property from the Whitman Collection, Boulder, Colorado

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:

Private Collection, New York.

Everett Rassiga, New York, 1950s-1960s; thence by descent to his grandson.

Private Southwestern Collection.

Arte Primitivo, New York, Fine Pre-Columbian, Tribal Art, & Classical Antiquities, 27 February 2023, Lot 159.

Height with stand 7 1/4 inches (18.42 cm).

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Mr. Coley joined the Antiquities department in 2021 after working as Managing Director in the Ancient Art department at Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, where he helped to establish the Ancient Art department and launched Colnaghi New York in 2017. Prior to Colnaghi, Mr. Coley was in the Greek and Roman Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Coley holds a B.A. from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Art Market from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and he earned an art-appraisal certificate from New York University.

Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic Art

A Teotihuacan Tecali Figure

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