Colima Vessel of a Dwarf

Colima Vessel of a Dwarf is not an individual artist but rather a category of pre-Columbian ceramic artifact originating from the ancient Colima culture of western Mexico, dating approximately 200 BCE to 500 CE. These distinctive vessels depict dwarfs or hunchbacked figures and were crafted by anonymous artisans for funerary and ritual purposes, placed in shaft tombs as offerings. They are highly prized in the antiquities market and regularly appear at major auction houses including Sotheby's and Christie's.