Chinesco Seated Mother and Child, Lagunillas Type D Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.- A.D. 250

the pensive mother with voluminous legs and holding a child wrapped in a tight cloth, the female wearing a skirt, necklace and armbands, her coiffure in tight radiating striations.

Acquired in 1964

Excellent, while there is heavy manganese spotting, the figure is intact. Tiny loss to the tip of the nose.
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While family groups and maternity figures are a genre of ancient West Mexican ceramics, they are rarely depicted in the Lagunillas style.