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After the wax resist was applied, different pigments were added to create the characteristic geometric patterns and linear designs.  This geometric banding is done this way and the seep bowls has three caryatid figures holding up the vessel at center; all attached to a rounded slab base. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very fine example for this type with excellent ancient archaeological patina. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSize: 6 inches H. x 6-3\/4 inches W.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEx Poway CA Collection of John Hart. 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Size: 3.125\" L x .5\" W (7.9 cm x 1.3 cm); 3.5\" H (8.9 cm) on included custom stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: Private New York, USA collection, ex Wearable Assets, October 1992, purportedly bought at Sotheby's in the 1970's-1980s\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46022613500218,"sku":"14571","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/DSC_6459_d4b505a9-62c0-42df-b72d-c51e5220a02b.jpg?v=1765574668"},{"product_id":"fine-chokwe-wood-carved-ancestor-figure","title":"Fine Chokwe Wood Carved Ancestor Figure","description":"\u003cp\u003eNortheastern Angola, Circa 19th–Early 20th Century AD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA finely carved hardwood standing male figure in the Chokwe sculptural tradition, depicting a dignitary or dancer with an elaborate winged, lobed coiffure\/headdress, heavy-lidded almond eyes, and a projecting carved beard — the classic features of Chokwe ancestor figures associated with the royal hero Chibinda Ilunga. An incised diagonal baldric\/sash crosses the torso, and the figure stands on large, powerfully rendered feet — a Chokwe convention symbolizing strength and authority. The flaring lower form represents a wide raffia dance skirt, identifying the subject as a ceremonial dancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChokwe figural sculpture from the Uchokwe homeland of 18th–19th-century Angola represents one of the supreme achievements of African art. The most celebrated subject is Chibinda Ilunga, the Luba prince and master hunter whose marriage to the Lunda chieftainess Lweji founded the Chokwe royal lineage; he is conventionally shown with an elaborate rolled\/winged headdress signifying royal rank, a beard, and oversized hands and feet denoting power. The winged coiffure and beard on this figure follow that canonical type.  Such figures honored ancestors and chiefly authority and were displayed in contexts of leadership and ritual dance; related Chokwe performance traditions used full raffia costumes and skirts. The flaring skirted lower body here directly evokes the masked\/costumed dancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Varied surface patina; an old age crack\/check visible at the forehead and headdress; wear consistent with age and handling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSize: 11 in. H (27.9 cm), excluding mount; on custom wood mount\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComparison (cf.): Chibinda Ilunga figures in the Kimbell Art Museum, British Museum (Af1969-09-5), and Smithsonian, all 19th-century northeastern Angola.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProvenance: J.S. 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Mary was one of the most distinctive and intellectually adventurous American fashion designers of the late twentieth century, celebrated for collections that drew directly on the art and dress of ancient and non-Western civilizations. Her signature finely pleated \"Marii\" silk gowns evoked the chitons of classical Greece and the pleated linens of pharaonic Egypt, while her use of color, ornament, and motif borrowed openly from Africa, Asia, pre-Columbian America, and the ancient Mediterranean. This deep engagement with the material culture of the past earned her the memorable nickname \"the Archaeologist of Seventh Avenue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA former editor at Vogue and a tireless world traveler, McFadden was as much a collector and connoisseur as a couturier. She assembled an eclectic personal collection of antiquities and ethnographic art gathered over decades of travel, which she frequently cited as the inspiration for her designs. 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The sample appears to be gold with the following composition:\u003cbr\u003eGold (Au): 76.5 ± 0.4%\u003cbr\u003eSilver (Ag): 11.8 ± 0.5%\u003cbr\u003eCopper (Cu): 11.30 ± 0.24%\u003cbr\u003eIron (Fe): 0.39 ± 0.14%\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eProvenance: From the estate of Christian Illies (1947-2014), Opelika, Alabama who inherited the collection from his grandfather, Ferdinand Grebien (1877-1976).  Christian Illies’ grandfather, Ferdinand Grebien was born in Austria in 1887 and arrived in Panama in 1911 to work on the construction of the canal. In Colon he founded Grebien, Martinz, a major private construction firm, (with more than 1000 employees) that went on to\u003cbr\u003ebuild many major institutions in Panama, including the Municipal Palace of the  District of Colon. Grebien was an avid lifelong collector of ancient Panamanian gold. 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The figure is frontally posed with a large rectangular plaque-like head surmounted by an elaborate fillet\/turban headdress rising to a vertical fan-shaped crest flanked by two coiled, horizontally banded rolls above the temples. Almond-shaped, perforated \"coffee-bean\" eyes flank a prominent nose, and the open mouth reveals modeled teeth; applied disc ear-spools frame the face. Arms are flexed with hands placed to the abdomen — the characteristic San Jerónimo maternal\/fertility gesture — while openwork piercings at the torso and between the short, columnar legs lighten the solid clay body. 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The idol is depicted standing with both hands held to its stomach, and features a wide head with angular carved facial features, all characteristic of the Mezcala M-24 type. The M-24 type is part of Carlo T. Gay's widely accepted classification system for Mezcala figures, representing a more advanced stylistic development where artisans achieved a greater degree of articulation and detail while maintaining the culture's signature minimalist aesthetic. Its intact, excellent condition, further validated by authenticating surface encrustation, underscores its remarkable preservation over millennia. The piece boasts a well-documented provenance, having been part of a private Florida collection, previously with Barry Kernerman of Toronto, and before that, from the esteemed Samuel Dubiner collection in Tel Aviv, Israel, acquired in the 1960s. 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