**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Mayan / Olmec Territories, Proto-Mayan period, ca. 500 to 0 BCE. A fantastic grouping of early Mayan pottery figures, two of which are complete effigies, and the other two are fragmentary. First is a seated dwarf figure with attenuated legs, sinuous arms, a broad chest, and a thick neck which supports a globular head with a drooping headdress. Next is a fragmentary figure in a lustrous orange hue, with a large pectoral framing his chest; a large head displays expressive features and a multi-lobed coiffure. Third is a seated male figure, corpulent in form, with arms bent downwards to folded knees and stylized belly folds. Last is a large fragmentary figure with a powerful stance, a large discoid pectoral, a slender waist, and a large head atop a thick neck. Each face displays a drilled mouth and eyes, and all are beautiful examples from the earliest days of the Mayan Empire! Lucite display stand for photography purposes only. Size of largest (tallest fragmentary figure): 6.75" H (17.1 cm).

Provenance: private Stagecoach, Nevada, USA collection; acquired from 1985 to present from galleries such as Arte Primitivo, Art For Eternity, Butterfields, and Riverbend Gallery

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#128899

Dwarf figure has losses to both legs. Bulb-hair fragment has losses to arms and lower body. Corpulent figure repaired from multiple pieces with resurfacing, restoration, and overpainting along break lines. Largest figure repaired from multiple pieces with losses to both arms and lower body. All items have age-commensurate surface wear, chips and nicks along peripheries, fading to some details, and fading to pigmentation, otherwise very good. Lovely earthen and mineral deposits throughout.