Mezcala Stone Figure, Type M22/M24 Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.

of powerful demeanor with robust head marked by large pecked oval eyes, broad cheeks with narrow earflanges, and parted lips, the large hands with fingers delineated on the waist, arms drilled at the shoulders and pressed tightly against the torso, on slightly bent tapering legs; in deep green mottled serpentine. 

Carlo Gay and Frances Pratt
California private collector, acquired from the above in 1975
Sotheby's, New York, May 17, 1993, lot 125, consigned by the above

Fine condition overall; nice encrustations overall and good color.
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Cf. Gay and Pratt (1992: Plate 76 and Fig. 12a,b), showing the close relationship of the M22 and M24 types.