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a Chontal seated figure, Type M16, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
looking up from drilled eyes, with deeply cut mouth and rounded jaw, slender arms folded to the chest and well defined legs, the grooved areas with extensive remains of red pigment, in light gray speckled serpentine.
Provenance
Frances Pratt, Teochita
Literature
Carlo Gay and Frances Pratt, Mezcala, Ancient Stone Sculpture from Guerrero, Mexico, 1992, pl. 102