Lot 138
  • 138

Chinesco Seated Figure with Bent Leg, Lagunillas Type E Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C. - A.D. 250

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • stone
  • Height: 11 in (28 cm)
poised with her right hand resting on her raised knee, her relaxed body with slender arms, swelling belly and mediative face marked by incised cheek scarification, with broad dark eye mask, and resist crosshatched designs on her arms and upper chest.

Provenance

Galerie Mermoz, Paris
Marion and Mark Lynton, acquired from the above in 1984

Exhibited

Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Out of the Depths, Tomb Figures from West Mexico, July 4, 1986-January 11, 1987

Literature

Out of the Depths, Tomb Figures from West Mexico, Foreword by Peter T. Furst, Cologne, 1986, Fig. 15

Condition

Excellent condition, intact, has some variation on the cream slip as shown on PR foreleg, otherwise fine.
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