Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, Protoclassic Period, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. A hand-built pottery figure of a female 'pretty lady' standing atop slender, delineated legs. The woman presents nude with exposed genitalia and holds both arms out from rounded shoulders, and framing her neckline is a shell-bead necklace. Her sizable head features incised diamond-shaped eyes, a perky nose above thin lips, and spool-adorned ears, all beneath a centrally parted coiffure. Remains of red and white pigment are visible across the composition. Size: 2.125" W x 3.9" H (5.4 cm x 9.9 cm); 4.2" H (10.7 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private lifetime collection of Dr. Saul Tuttman and Dr. Gregory Siskind, New York, New York, USA, acquired in the 1980s

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#171606

  • Condition: Minor abrasions and encrustations, with fading and chipping to pigment, and light softening to some finer details, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits and light remains of pigment throughout. Old inventory label beneath display stand.

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