Jalisco Pottery Semi-Nude Pregnant Female, ex-Sotheby's

Lot 183

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Lot Description

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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, Late Preclassic period, ca. 300 to 200 BCE. A lovely pottery figure of a female standing bare-chested with both hands placed on her bulbous, pregnant belly. Dressed in a long skirt, she displays distinguished West Mexican characteristics of an elongated head, a narrow, pointed nose, coffee bean-shaped eyes, and a smiling mouth. Her head is crowned by a crested headdress and headband, while earrings flank her face, and a prominent necklace falls between her voluptuous breasts. Nice remains of black-painted geometric motifs adorn her skirt and face. Size: 2.8" W x 7.5" H (7.1 cm x 19 cm); 7.8" H (19.8 cm) on included custom stand.

Jalisco, located on Mexico's southwestern coast, was during this time part of the shaft tomb culture, along with neighbors in Colima and Nayarit. In this culture, the dead were buried down shafts - 3 to 20 meters deep - that were dug vertically or near vertically through the volcanic tuff that makes up the geology of the region. The base of the shaft would open into one or more horizontal chambers with a low ceiling. These shafts were almost always dug beneath a dwelling, probably a family home, and seem to have been used as family mausoleums, housing the remains of many related individuals. Within the tombs, they arrayed skeletons radially with their feet positioned inward, and clay offerings, like this one, placed alongside the walls facing inward, near the skulls. Some scholars have connected these dynamic sculptures of the living as a strong contrast to the skeletal remains whose space they shared, as if they mediated between the living and the dead.

Published in Sotheby's New York "Pre-Columbian Art" Monday, November 24, 1997, lot number 276 (1 of 2), page 126.

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Sotheby's New York, New York, USA, November 24, 1997 (sale 7057), lot 276 (1 of 2); ex-private New England, USA collection

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Condition

Professionally repaired with some light restoration over break lines. Otherwise, excellent with liberal remains of painted detail and nice manganese deposits to surface. Sotheby's labels on underside of custom stand.
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