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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Two hand-built terracotta female figures in a deep-red slip, each displaying characteristic "sheepface" qualities such as conical noses, coffee-bean-shaped eyes, tall foreheads with braided headbands, and projecting ears. Both figures exhibit attenuated limbs and slender waists, perky breasts, and rounded shoulders. The shorter figure has a triangular forehead and perforated earspools, and the taller figure displays a squared brow and disc-form earspools. With white-painted details embellishing their surfaces, both figures are lovely examples from ancient Western Mexico! Size of largest (disc-form earspools): 6.1" H (15.5 cm).

Provenance: private Stagecoach, Nevada, USA collection; acquired from 1985 to present from galleries such as Arte Primitivo, Art For Eternity, Butterfields, and Riverbend Gallery

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  • Condition: Taller figure has repairs, light restoration, and some overpainting to portions of both legs. Both figures have age-commensurate surface wear, fading to pigmentation, small chips to foreheads, ears, arms, and legs, with nice earthen and mineral deposits throughout.

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