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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit cultures, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fine set of three hand-built and highly burnished pottery figures from ancient West Mexico. First is a Colima kneeling figure with outstretched arms, coffee-bean-shaped eyes, and red-orange slip pigment. Second is a Nayarit seated female with legs tucked beneath a red-striped skirt and red pigment across her arm bands, mouth, and hat. The tallest figure is a Jalisco sheepface female with enormous breasts, a white-painted loincloth, and impressed eyes and lips beneath a tapered brow. Size of largest (Jalisco): 4.375" W x 6.3" H (11.1 cm x 16 cm)

Provenance: private Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA collection; ex-Minerva Gallery; ex-Benjamin Vega, California, USA, acquired in 2006 to 2007; ex-Gene and Virginia George, brought to the USA from 1961 to 1966

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#155022

  • Condition: Colima figure has left arm reattached at shoulder, with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines; Nayarit and Jalisco figures are intact and very good. All items have nicks and abrasions, with fading and chipping to original pigment, and light encrustations. Nice earthen deposits and remains of original pigment throughout.

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