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a Large Chontal stone figure, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
with full rounded body and arms separated from the torso, distinguished by a phallus or cache-sexe, the turned head with a meditative expression of rimmed eyes and parted lips, the ears notched, in gray-green veined stone.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1970s
Exhibited
Paris, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Figures de Pierre, L'art du Guerrero dans le Mexique Précolombien, October 2-November 21, 1992, fig. 101, illus.
Catalogue Note
Cf. Gay and Gay (2001: pl. 47), for a very similar figure.