Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A nice set of 2 hand-built pottery figures from ancient West Mexico, each standing atop delineated legs. The first figure presents nude with one hand placed on his mouth while wearing a peaked cap. The larger figure dons an incised garment across his chest and wears a conical cap beneath incised eyes and an ornamented nose. Size of largest: 3.25" W x 6.625" H (8.3 cm x 16.8 cm); 7" H (17.8 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, acquired before 2010

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#169994

  • Condition: Shorter figure has restoration to both arms, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines; taller figure is intact and very good. Shorter figure has a brass wire fragment around its waist from an old display stand that is difficult to remove without damaging the piece. Both figures have light abrasions and encrustations commensurate with age, softening to some finer details, and fading to pigment. Nice earthen deposits throughout.

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