Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco and Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pair of hand-built pottery artifacts from ancient West Mexico. First is a Jalisco piriform jar with a flared foot surrounding an open bottom, a spherical body adorned with a register of connected diamonds, and vertical frets surrounding the neck. Next is a Nayarit standing female figure who presents nude while holding both arms to her waist. Her elongated head features slit-form eyes and mouth, a bulbous nose, and a tall forehead surmounted by a centrally parted coiffure, all covered in red and red-orange pigment. Size (Nayarit figure): 3.125" W x 8.1" H (7.9 cm x 20.6 cm); 8.3" H (21.1 cm) on included custom stand; (Jalisco jar): 3.1" W x 6.2" H (7.9 cm x 15.7 cm)
Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, acquired before 2010
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Condition
Figure has head reattached along neckline, with restoration to proper right ear and arm, and resurfacing with overpainting along new material and break lines. Neck of vessel reattached to top of lower body, with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Both pieces have minor abrasions and fading to pigment in scattered areas, with extensive encrustations within vessel body. Nice preservation to overall forms.