Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery female figure presenting in a seated pose with both legs tucked beneath her. Highly burnished and covered with red pigment, the nude woman features a portly belly, a slightly forward leaning pose, and protruding breasts, with both arms held tightly against her natural waist. Her elongated head bears a pair of ovoid eyes, a prominent triangular nose with impressed nostrils, lips parted into a slight smile, and hoop-adorned ears, all beneath an incised, centrally parted coiffure. Size: 4.9" W x 8.9" H (12.4 cm x 22.6 cm)

Provenance: Whisnant Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, acquired prior to 2000

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#169360

  • Condition: One large fissure to top and sides of proper left knee that has been stabilized with adhesive residue visible along break lines. Minor abrasions and fading to pigment on body, limbs, and head, with small nicks along stabilized areas of knee, and light encrustations in scattered areas. Nice preservation to overall form and pigment in most areas.

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