Pre Columbian Tlatilco Pottery Type D1 Bust Middle Preclassic, ca. 1200-500 B.C.
Size 2-3/4 in H. + custom mount which adds additional height.
Fine and solid buff color pottery upper section of a votive figure depicted with fancy plaitted hairdo, eyes slightly slanted and with remains of red painted pigment.
Ex estate of James McWilliams Kellers. Summit. New Jersev, noted anthropologist, scholar and collector.
Compare siliar example in The Jaguar's Children: PreClassic Central Mexico. by Coe, Michael D. NY: Museum of Primitive Art. 1065
Fine quality!!

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