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Lot 289

A Group of Three Colima Terracotta Tripod Vessels with Parrot Feet

Lot 289

A Group of Three Colima Terracotta Tripod Vessels with Parrot Feet

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $200 - $400

Estimate$200 – $400

Status

Closed

A Group of Three Colima Terracotta Tripod Vessels with Parrot Feet

West Mexico, Circa 1st Century B.C.-2nd Century A.D.

Tallest: 7 inches (18 cm).

Property from the Collection of Dr. James Dawson, Manchester, Kentucky

Provenance:

Garth's Auction, Columbus, Ohio, 2002; where acquired by the current owner.

All intact. Overall heavy surface wear with salts/staining, chipping, abrasions, crackling, and pitting. Some surface loss and hairline surface cracks throughout. Soil or sediment present inside the vessels.
Tallest: Chip to one of the feet; piece is present but not attached. Another foot is chipped at the tip, now lost.
Medium: One of the feet is repaired from multiple fragments with cracks still visible, not affecting the overall stability. Two chips to the rim with some minor loss.
Smallest: Chipping to the outside of the rim. Cracks to all three parrots on the feet, possibly stemming from the pattern on the back and wings, not affecting the overall stability. Gash to the head of one parrot with most of the head now lost. Chip with meandering hairline surface cracks on the bottom of the vessel.

Please note this is now a group of three vessels.

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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.

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