Large Nayarit seated female with bowl, Ixtlán del Rio style, Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C. -A.D. 250

the female partner of a marriage couple, demurely holding a small bowl in her left hand, the right resting on her swollen and perhaps pregnant belly, her body covered with geometric designs, the face wtih delicate features of small recessed eyes, parted lips and adorned with multiple ear and nose ornaments, wearing a patterned skirt, beaded armbands and rounded headband.

Stendahl Gallery

Acquired from the above in the 1950's

Harold Hecht (1907-1985) was an Academy Award winning  Hollywood producer. 

Shows overall erosion/ loss of main design pigment, and repaired at the neck.
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