Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hollow-built redware pottery statue depicting a woman seated upon bent legs and wearing a knee-length skirt. Her nude upper body displays her perky breasts, with her left arm bent to her abdomen and adorned with an arm band, and the left supporting a small olla on her shoulder. Her expressive visage is composed of wide ovoid eyes, a bulbous nose with an attached ring, tall ears adorned with several ornaments each, and bared teeth, all beneath a rounded pate and a vertically-striped head band. Layers of additional red and white pigment are painted atop the figure's earthy red ground and make this an attractive example of ancient shaft-tomb pottery! Size: 7.4" W x 9.875" H (18.8 cm x 25.1 cm).

Provenance: private Boulder, Colorado, USA collection, acquired between 1940 and 1960

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  • Condition: Repair to top of head with light restoration and overpainting along break lines. Small chips and abrasions to legs, body, arms, and head, with fading to areas of original pigmentation, and light encrustations within some recessed areas. Nice earthen deposits and traces of original pigmentation throughout.

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