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Pre-Columbian West Mexican Figure Assortment

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Pre Columbian Mexican Seated Figure: Nayarit Culture, 200 BC-500 AD. A ceramic figurine of a seated figure with ribbed headdress, beads to the chest, left hand resting on the knee, right hand holding an ear of maize. 128 grams, 76mm (3")

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Pre-Columbian West Mexican Figure Assortment

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Pre-Columbian West Mexican Figure Assortment

(4) hollow-bodied items, including a Jalisco seated male, cross-armed, having traces of paint; a Michoacan seated female; a Nayarit painted seated 'peyote eater' having a bowl on knee; and a tube-like figure open at top and bottom; together with a Mayan Jaina style seated solid figurine accompanied by a bag of fragments

Provenance: The Estate of George 'Yorgo' Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1965-2000

Property from: a Kalamazoo, Michigan estate

Height: 11 inches, Width: 7 inches, Depth: 8 inches (tallest)

Condition: Good to Fair, overall moderate to heavy wear consistent with normal use; Jalisco having broken leg (present); Nayarit lacks a leg; Michoacan having hair-line crack along side nose; Mayan having loss to arm and headdress, some pieces present in bag

Disclaimers: please note: this lot came from a house that had been closed for some time and a musty odor may be present

Category: Decorative Arts > Ethnographic

Estimated Sale Time: 5:42 pm CST

Shipping Status: Shipping Quote

Sales Tax: California (7.25%), Florida (6%), Georgia (8.5%), Kansas (6.5%), New Jersey (6.625%), New Mexico (5.125%), New York (8.875%), Pennsylvania (6%), Washington (10.5%)

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Condition

Good to Fair, overall moderate to heavy wear consistent with normal use; Jalisco having broken leg (present); Nayarit lacks a leg; Michoacan having hair-line crack along side nose; Mayan having loss to arm and headdress, some pieces present in bag