Colima Female Figure, Comala Style, Protoclassic, circa 100 BC - AD 250

Benjamin B. Johnson, Los Angeles
Californian Private Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, November 15, 1994, lot 93, consigned by the above
Private Collection, acquired at the above auction

Of elegant tall stature, this highly stylized figure is of exceptionally narrow and flattened form. Her small delicate head shows the narrow slit eyes and mouth. She is minimally adorned with a long necklace suspending a bar pendant, and fine incising indicating her loincloth.