Valdivian Pottery Female Venus Figure

**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery Venus figure of a characteristically feminine form with a slender waist and hands held beneath perky breasts. Her highly burnished body is painted with red slip pigment that has darkened over time. Her minimalist face has slit-form eyes, lips, and brows framed within a bulbous coiffure which is topped by a twin-lobed, centrally parted headdress. A sweet and petite example! Size: 1" W x 3.6" H (2.5 cm x 9.1 cm)

Provenance: private southern California, USA collection, acquired before 2000

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#159035
Condition Report: Loss to left leg as shown. Minor abrasions to body and head, with light fading to original pigment. Nice preservation of red pigment.