Lot 170
  • 170

a Mezcala stone female figure, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

Type M12, with large circular breasts and arms folded low on the hips, the face with pecked eyes and mouth, and thick arched brows, the top of the head roughened, in deep gray-green andesite.

Provenance

Frances Pratt, Teochita
Acquired form the above, 1978

Catalogue Note

Cf. Gay and Pratt (1992: fig. 6a), for the type.