A NAYARIT KNEELING FEMALE FIGURE, CHINESCO STYLE, TYPE B
Anthropos Gallery
A Chinesco Type 'B' ceramic figure with hands held to mid-section, with white painted designs on a red slip. Incied and cross-hatched hair with nose ring and scarification cicatrice on both shoulders.
SOLD
Artwork details
Origin
Unknown Nayarit artist, Lagunillas, West Mexico, Protoclassic, circa 100 B.C. to A.D. 250.
Dimension
H 7.5IN
H 19.05CM
Provenance
1) Ex-Sidney Newman Collection, Beverly Hills, California, co-author of The Shaft Tomb figures of West Mexico, with Hasso von Winning. 2) The Brisacher Family Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Costa Mesa, California.
Condition
Good, with some minor slightly faded pigment.