Lot 187
  • 187

a Large mezcala stone figure, Type M14, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

of broad and flattened form with distinguishing openwork arms and slightly arched back, hands at the waist, the face with wide mouth and thin coffeebean eyes below prominent brows, with ear flanges, the top of the head with pyretic encrustation, in polished deep green metadiorite.

Provenance

Acquired in 1977

Exhibited

Paris, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Figures de Pierre, L'art du Guerrero dans le Mexique précolombien, October 2-November 21, 1992, fig. 47, illus.