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Tall Colima Pottery Figure Gingerbread Flat

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Tall Colima Pottery Figure Gingerbread Flat

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Description

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery figure of flat form known as a gingerbread figure. The abstract anthropoid presents with delineated legs, wearing a waist-length tunic painted with black linear patterns, and adorned with parallel necklaces. The elongated head features a lobed coiffure above a minimalist coiffure consisting of a massive nose and pierced ears. Size: 1.4" L x 5" W x 8.3" H (3.6 cm x 12.7 cm x 21.1 cm)

Provenance: private Ferndale, Michigan, USA collection; ex-private Detroit, Michigan, USA collection, acquired prior to 2004

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Condition

Abrasions and fading to pigment, with light earthen deposits, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to figural form, and nice manganese deposits.