Huastec Seated Figure, Panuco region, Late Preclassic - Protoclassic, circa 300 BC - AD 300

Paul Tishman, New York, active as a collector during the 1960s

Peter G. Wray, Scottsdale (inv. no. 7069)

Richard A. Manoogian, Taylor, Michigan, acquired from the above

Sotheby's, New York, November 19, 1990, lot 204, consigned by the above

Acquired at the above auction

Figures from the Panuco region were made with refined facial details and expressions. Here the delicate incised eyes and tightly pursed lips are highlighted by the gently raised and arched brow and the slender nose that is accented with a bead ornament. The coiffure is finely striated and pulled up into a soft chignon secured with a band. The body is of solid form and youthful in its stylized, stiff posture.

See H. B. Nicholson et al., Ancient Art of Veracruz, Los Angeles, 1971, p. 47, fig. 16 for the type.