presented seated on his throne in a hieratic posture. He wears a belt with a rectangular loincloth, his rib cage slightly marked and his face decorated with ritual paintings. He chews coca leaves. His eyes are exorbitant under the effect of the psychotropic drug. This work is distinguished by the quality of its sculpture and its imposing size, allowing us to classify it in the corpus of the largest.
Orange terracotta with brown decoration, traces of manganese oxide, marks of time.
Narińo, Capuli Complex, Colombia, AD 800-1500.
51x 21 x 24.4 cm
Provenance: former Yvon Collet collection, 1967
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