Nayarit Chinesco Seated Nude Female

**Originally Listed At $400**

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Chinesco type, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery woman shown nude in a seated position. With outstretched legs and hands to her hips she sits, red bands encircling her neck and waist, while petite eyes peer outwards beneath a tall, pinched brow. Smooth white pigment covers the surfaces of this abstract figural effigy. Size: 4.3" W x 5.125" H (10.9 cm x 13 cm)

Provenance: ex-Barakat Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, USA, acquired prior to 2000

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Condition Report: Minor nicks, abrasions, and fading to pigment commensurate with age, with light earthen deposits, and a couple stable hairline fissures, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to figural form and pigment in most areas. Previous inventory label beneath base.