Description:

**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Chihuahua, Casas Grandes (also known as Paquime), ca. 1250 to 1450 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of rare female figural form with highly burnished surfaces enveloped in russet red pigment. The rotund figure features a bulbous belly, slender arms coursing across the upper chest and down to her sex, and intricate, black-painted linear motifs. Her protruding head features squinting eyes, pursed lips, a slender nose, and tab-shaped ears, all beneath a checkerboard-pattern coiffure. Two pairs of holes drilled around the rim were perhaps intended to secure a lid or elevate the vessel when not in use. Size: 7.8" L x 5.8" W (19.8 cm x 14.7 cm)

Provenance: private Denver, Colorado, USA collection; ex-John B. Kendrick II collection, Denver, Colorado, USA, acquired 1965 to 1990; John B. Kendrick II, son of John B. Kendrick, former Wyoming Governor and US Senator 1930s

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#172675

  • Condition: Repair and restoration to rim and one or both feet, with resurfacing along most new material and break lines; some repaired areas of rim are still visible. Abrasions, fading to pigment, small nicks and chips, and light encrustations within basin. Nice preservation to pigment throughout. Old inventory label beneath base.

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