Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hollow-built and highly burnished redware pottery figure of a seated female. The nude woman features ample thighs and conical feet, a broad abdomen, and sinuous arms bent behind her lower back. Her enlarged head exhibits impressed eyes, a tab-shaped nose, thin lips, and multiple earrings on each ear, all beneath a deeply incised coiffure. Faint traces of negative resist spot motifs are visible on one shoulder and suggest this figure was at one time adorned with intricate embellishments. Size: 6.2" W x 10.75" H (15.7 cm x 27.3 cm)

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

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#151367

  • Condition: Head repaired from multiple pieces, with minor restoration in some areas, and resurfacing and overpainting to new material and break lines. Abrasions to limbs, body, and head, with scattered areas of fire-darkening, and fading to original pigmentation. Nice earthen and manganese deposits throughout.

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