West Mexico, ca. 100BC-250AD
Two large Jalisco, San Juanito style pottery figures of women. Each wearing classic headdress, earring groups and raised shoulder tattoos. Large size and good style.

Dimensions

largest: 16.2" (41 cm) high

Provenance
The John J. Slocum Collection - Newport, RIMr. Slocum (1914-1997) collected most of his antiquities while serving as US cultural attache to Egypt in the 1960s. Later, he served as Assistant to the Director of The Smithsonian, was appointed by President Reagan to the Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee, and was a Trustee Emeritus of the Archaeological Institute of America. He was a well-respected scholar/collector, whose medieval crusader coins were sold in a single-owner sale at Sotheby’s, London in 1997.

One arm neatly re-attached at the elbow. Otherwise very good.