**Originally Listed At $300**

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery female figure of a characteristically 'flat' form standing upon lengthy delineated legs and miniscule feet. She bears impressed genitalia below her lightly-bulging abdomen, has bent sinuous arms adorned with small cuffs with one holding a small jar on her shoulder, and an applied necklace with a large pectoral pendant. Her elongated head boasts coffee-bean-shaped eyes, a perky nose, thin lips, drooping ears with small earrings, and a wide brow, all capped with a simple head band and a striated coiffure. Size: 4.375" W x 7.55" H (11.1 cm x 19.2 cm); 8" H (20.3 cm) on included custom stand.

For a stylistically-similar example without a jar, please see: Kan, Michael, Clement Meighan, and H. B. Nicholson. "Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima | A Catalogue of the Proctor Stafford Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989, p. 145, fig. 138.

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private lifetime collection of Dr. Saul Tuttman and Dr. Gregory Siskind, New York, New York, USA

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Repairs to jar, right arm, and left foot, with upper body reattached to lower body at waist line, with light resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Minor abrasions to limbs, body, and head, with light softening to some finer details, and minor encrustations. Light earthen deposits throughout.