Description:

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, late Olmec or Proto Maya culture, ca. 1150 to 300 BCE. An intriguing hand-built and highly burnished pottery figure standing atop attenuated legs and arched feet. The legs expand into the shoulders and arms directly above the thighs, and the wide neck supports the bulbous head. The stylized visage displays characteristic Olmecoid features like diamond-shaped eyes with delineated pupils, a slender nose with flared nostrils, a raised upper lip, and perky ears, all beneath a finely-striated coiffure. Thick red-orange slip covers the face and body of the figure and imbue it with an attractive coloration. An unusual example from the Olmec-Maya transition period! Size: 3.1" W x 43.125" H (7.9 cm x 109.5 cm).

Provenance: ex-Merrin Gallery, New York, New York, USA; ex-private New York, USA collection, acquired in the 1980s

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#148170

  • Condition: Restoration to left leg, with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Minor nicks and abrasions to feet, upper body, and head, with softening to some finer details, and fading and chipping to original pigmentation. Nice earthen deposits throughout, and great craquelure to areas of original red pigment.

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