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Nayarit Pottery Figure + Mother w/ Child Effigy

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Nayarit Pottery Figure + Mother w/ Child Effigy

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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery figures from ancient Mexico depicting mothers with children. The red slipped figure is a Chinesco type standing nude atop a pair of delineated legs with a child upon her back. Her head features a pinched coffee-bean-shaped eyes accentuated nose, and impressed mouth. The other mother with a child on her waist is much more stylized, characteristic of Ixtlan del Rio types, with a square and flattened torso profile, the head features bulging nose and septum piercing and a flared headdress. Size (larger figure): 4" W x 5.5" H (10.2 cm x 14 cm)

Provenance: ex-Nancy and Dr. E.F. Simpson collection, Los Angeles, California, USA, acquired from 1970 to 2000

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Condition

Chinesco figure is repaired, break line visible on waist and loss to ear. Other Nayarit figure has surface abrasions and nicks, otherwise intact and very good and manganese deposits on surface.

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Nayarit Pottery Figure + Mother w/ Child Effigy

Name: Nayarit Pottery Figure + Mother w/ Child Effigy
SKU: 131014189
Price: 800 USD
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