Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, Protoclassic Period, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. A hand-built pottery figure of an abstract woman standing atop arched feet and delineated legs. Highly burnished, the nude woman presents holding both arms out at her sides next to her globular breasts and wears an impressed necklace around her neck. Her broad head features double-pupil eyes, a peaked nose, pursed lips, and spool-form ear ornaments, all beneath an incised headband and a helical cap. Size: 4.06" W x 6.05" H (10.3 cm x 15.4 cm)

Provenance: private Healy collection, Studio City, California, USA, acquired 1995 to 2015

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#166569

  • Condition: Repairs to right leg at hip and left arm at forearm, with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor abrasions and fading to surface pigment, with light encrustations, and one small spall on proper right breast. Nice preservation to overall figural form.

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