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A nayarit standing male figure, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- height 19 7/8 in. 50.5cm
with exaggerated voluminous legs and body, leaning forward with a mace-headed club on the right shoulder and holding a cup in the left, the spine showing, ridged coiffure flanked by striated locks of hair, brightly covered in orange pigment with resist designs in wavy lines on the body, and bands of polka-dot design on the club.
Provenance
Stendahl Gallery
Jacques Sarlie Collection
Acquired from the above, ca. 1968
Exhibited
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Pre-Columbian Art, 1950, forward to the exhibition catalogue by Alfred Stendahl, pg. 27, illus
Literature
Hasso von Winning, Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America, New York, 1968, colorplate 165
Catalogue Note
Cf. Parsons (1980: fig. 77), for a similar figure with knopped club and resist body decoration, in the Morton May Collection, St. Louis Art Museum.