Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, Protoclassic Period, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery figures from ancient Michoacan. The first figure stands nude atop wide-set legs, holds a grooved club or rasp instrument in one hand, and has both arms bent outwards from sloped shoulders. The wide head features impressed eyes, a conical nose, bared teeth, and trios of ear ornaments beneath a wide hat. The taller figure is ornamented on the wrists, ankles, neck, ears, and brow, holds both arms atop a slightly distended abdomen, and features squinting eyes and a semicircular mouth. Size of largest: 4.25" W x 8.1" H (10.8 cm x 20.6 cm)

Provenance: private Kansas, USA collection, acquired via descent from family in Jalisco, Mexico ca. the 1940s, and imported into the US in the 1970s and 1980s

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#171540

  • Condition: Both figures have repairs to heads as shown. Each piece has minor abrasions, softening to finer details, and fading to surface pigment. Nice earthen deposits.

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