Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. This is a large, hollow pottery figure, red-slipped, in the tradition of the West Mexican shaft tomb culture, created to be placed as funerary furniture lining the edges of a deep tomb as if in conversation with the dead. This example is heavy and well-formed, showing a woman touching one breast with one hand and holding a bowl or basket on her shoulder with the other. She is seated, wearing a skirt. Her face is simple, with wide, empty eyes, a simple, smooth coiffure, and long, pierced ears. The hollow eyes and ear piercings suggest that this figure may have had inlays for the eyes (perhaps of shell?) and gold earrings. Size: 6.25" L x 9.25" W x 11.2" H (15.9 cm x 23.5 cm x 28.4 cm)

Provenance: Ex - Scollard collection, Los Angeles, CA

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  • Condition: Intact with remaining pigment

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