STONE STATUE PUCARÁ ANCIENT INTERMEDIATE, APPROX.... Lot 18

STONE STATUE PUCARÁ ANCIENT INTERMEDIATE, APPROX. 200 BC - 200 AD Height: 27.8 cm. (11 in.) $8700-13000 PROVENANCE Collection Robert Kommer, New Jersey Bettina Schwimmer, Chicago, acquired from the latter in the 1980s Collection John Platt, Daniel M. Friedenberg (1923-2011), New York, acquired from the latter in the 1980s Arte Primitivo, New York, May 19, 2004, lot 257 Howard Welsh Collection, New York, acquired at this sale Christie's, New York, May 23, 2007, lot 29 Belgian Private Collection, acquired at this sale RARE PUKARA STONE FIGURE With a robust build, hands placed in a ritual gesture with fngers carefully delineated, ankle bones indicated, shoulder blades and spinal column demarcated, the broad facial plane distinguished by rimmed and recessed eyes and mouth, wearing trunks and headband over the domed headdress; in brown-red sandstone. The Pukara, who fourished from around 500 B.C. to 450 A.D., employed highly sophisticated techniques for creating ceramics, textiles, stone sculptures, and metal objects. Scholars have proposed that the Pukara are the predecessors of the Tiwanaku, a powerful culture that later developed in the same area. The power of this near-columnar fgure foreshadows their anthropomorphic monoliths of Kalasasaya in modern Bolivia. To bid, please visit the "Auction Information" section.