Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An adorable group of five terracotta miniatures from the Jalisco shaft-tomb culture, including a triangular storage jar, a seated bichrome musician with a tall headdress, a red slipped seated figure with a clamshell-shaped headdress and long sinuous arms, a standing figure hunched over a striped metate, and a rotund figure with large coffee-bead-shaped eyes. A fabulous ensemble! Size of largest: 2" H (5.1 cm).

Provenance: private Stagecoach, Nevada, USA collection; acquired from 1985 to present from galleries such as Arte Primitivo, Art For Eternity, Butterfields and Riverbend Gallery

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#128876

  • Condition: All items have age-commensurate surface wear with minor chips and losses. Triangular storage jar has earthen deposits throughout; seated musician has earthen deposits throughout and some pigment still visible; long-armed seated figure has repairs to one arm and mineral deposits throughout; standing metate figure has earthen deposits; and rotund figure has surface roughness but good overall.

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