Maternity
Maternity
Colima - West Coast - Mexico
100 B.C
. 250 A.D. Massive brown terra cotta with brown slip
Sitting, legs open, this moving maternity, with a soft and serene expression, holds a child in her arms, whose back is visible, suggesting that he is suckling his mother's breast. She has a ritual cranial deformation, a distinctive sign of the elite, a nose in the shape of a bird's beak and eyes and a mouth in the shape of a coffee bean, made by pastillage. Its torso is exaggeratedly wide in front and narrow in profile. This woman wears a beautiful headdress with long pendants drooping down to the shoulders, a wide necklace, multiple bracelets adorning her long filiform arms and circular ear ornaments, other attributes of dignitaries. Note the presence of discs in relief on the shoulders evoking scarification. The thick legs are short, broad and schematic. The child also has an elongated skull and a broad torso.
H.15 cm
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Maternity
Colima - West Coast - Mexico
100 B.C
. 250 A.D. Massive brown terra cotta with brown slip
Sitting, legs open, this moving maternity, with a soft and serene expression, holds a child in her arms, whose back is visible, suggesting that he is suckling his mother's breast. She has a ritual cranial deformation, a distinctive sign of the elite, a nose in the shape of a bird's beak and eyes and a mouth in the shape of a coffee bean, made by pastillage. Its torso is exaggeratedly wide in front and narrow in profile. This woman wears a beautiful headdress with long pendants drooping down to the shoulders, a wide necklace, multiple bracelets adorning her long filiform arms and circular ear ornaments, other attributes of dignitaries. Note the presence of discs in relief on the shoulders evoking scarification. The thick legs are short, broad and schematic. The child also has an elongated skull and a broad torso.
H.15 cm
Private collection, Paris Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.
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