Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1200 to 1450 CE. A hollow-made bichrome female cuchimilco "star-gazer" figure standing on thick legs and flat feet. The figure bears delineated genitalia below a broad abdomen, with large intersecting straps painted in black in-between her outstretched arms. Her head boasts an expressive visage with circular eyes and painted pupils, a petite nose, an open mouth, and an enormous forehead with a painted headband of linear and zigzag forms. Additional black-painted details adorn her eyes, nose, hands, ankles, and around her mouth, perhaps suggestive of ritual scarification marks. Custom metal display stand included. Size: 8.625" W x 10" H (21.9 cm x 25.4 cm); 10.75" H (27.3 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private collection of Dr. Saul Tuttman and Dr. Gregory Siskind, acquired 1960s - 1970s

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#136798

Figure repaired from several large pieces with some restoration and resurfacing along break lines. Both arms reattached with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, small losses to legs, hands, body, and top of head, with fading to pigmentation in some areas, and light roughness across most surfaces. Nice earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory label on verso.