Large Jalisco Seated Female Figure, Ameca style Protoclassic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 250

kneeling on slender shins, her powerful physique in contrast to her delicate face with fine dotted tattoos extending across the cheeks, rimmed eyes in alert expression, and finely striated coiffure, with detailed curvilinear tattoos on the breasts.

José Alegría Collection
By descent in the family

Excellent, only minor pressure crack on skirt but otherwise intact. Good coloring and designs of tattoos on breast, left breast shows the design is worn. , Strong modeling of the face.
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