PRE-COLUMBIAN TERRA COTTA FEMALE FIGURE COLIMA WEST MEXICO 100 BC - 300 AD

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PRE-COLUMBIAN TERRA COTTA FEMALE FIGURE COLIMA WEST MEXICO 100 BC - 300 AD :
$125.00

GJPaw sales is pleased to offer a Pre-Columbianterracotta Standing Female Figure, from the Colima culture, West Mexico. The area knownarchaeologically as West Mexico has long been recognized as a region ofbeautiful ceramic sculptures, manifestations of a reverence for ancestors and abelief in the power of symbolism. These traits are recognized as characteristicof the cultural development of the region during the period from 300 B.C. to400 A.D., the time of the Colima culture. Colima is best known for its finelyfinished red burnished effigies, both of humans and animals, especially dogs, andthe solid small unburnished figurines, commonly called Colima flats. Thisbeautifully modeled, solid archaic standing female figure is depicted wearing a headband, earrings and a necklace with multiple pendants. It measures 2inches in width by 0.5 inches in depth by 6 inches in height (5.08 cm by 1.27 cm by 15.2 cm). The figure shows wear consistent with a Pre-Columbian dating, with a hairline cracks on both legs from previous repair work, but generallyis in very good condition. It also comes with a specially designed, hand-madeiron museum display stand for display. Guaranteed authentic, it would make asuperb addition to any collection of Pre-Columbian ceramics. The famous muralartist Diego Rivera began his collection of Mexican pottery with small Colimafigures - the collection later grew into a national treasure which waseventually housed in the Rivera Museum in Mexico City.

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