This pensive nude male figure is seated with arms resting on flexed knees and his left hand grasps his right wrist. His eyes and mouth are wide open and he wears a brown cap decorated with an ornamented band.
His face and body have been painted with a colorful orange-red slip and he is adorned with multiple ear-rings and a double-strand necklace. Mineral and earthen accretions attest to long-term interment.
7.5" (19cm) high x 4.5"
wide (11.4cm) x 5.25" (13.5cm); insignificant lower leg repair and in EXCELLENT overall condition.
SEATED NUDE MALE FIGURE
SAN SEBASTIAN RED TYPE, NAYARIT, MEXICO
Proto-Classic Period
200 B.C.E - 300 C.E.
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Pre-Columbian Art Specialist.
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dimension, cultural provenance and chronology.
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a half-century.
He has complied with UNESCO, federal/local legislation and never consciously
acquired, traded in or sold illicitly recovered items.
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