For your consideration is this large, red-slipped nude seated female figure wearing only a cap,
multiple ear-ornaments and a nose-ring. Her arms are flexed with hands holding her breasts.
12" (30.4cm) high, 7.25" wide (18.4 cm) and 6" (15.2 cm) front-to-back;
Without repairs or restoration, this authentic museum-quality figure is in excellent condition.
FEMALE SEATED FIGURE
SAN SEBASTIAN RED, NAYARIT, MEXICO
Proto-Classic Period
200 B.C.E - 250 C.E.
Provenance: Acquired on June 21, 1977 at the Sotheby Parke-Bernet galleries in New York City.
Comparables: Von Winning, Hasso. "The Shaft Tomb Figures of West Mexico" Southwest Museum Papers, No. 24, CA 1974, fig. 232;
Proctor Stafford Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA 1970, fig. 62, page 105.
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The authenticity of this artifact is fully guaranteed by the seller, retired scholar
and longtime Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers, certified Specialist in Pre-Columbian Art.
Your figure will be carefully packed, insured and promptly shipped with a signed and registered
Certificate of Authenticity that includes a description, photo, dimension, cultural provenance and chronology.
If not to U.S. buyer’s satisfaction, this artwork may be returned as shipped within thirty days of purchase for a purchase price refund
minus 10% re-stocking fee for return of item in original condition and shipping materials; buyer pays return shipping and insurance.
This seller has been a conscientious collector and dedicated scholar of New World antiquities for over a half-century.
He has complied with UNESCO, federal/local legislation and never consciously acquired, traded in or sold illicitly recovered antiquities.
He has complied with UNESCO, federal/local legislation and never consciously acquired, traded in or sold illicitly recovered antiquities.
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