Cassera Colima Terracotta Flat Figure - Standing Female

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery female figure standing atop delineated legs and holding her hands together above an incised loincloth. Her minimalist visage is composed of coffee-bean-shaped eyes, a prominent nose, and full lips beneath a centrally parted coiffure. Red pigment adorns her necklace, eyes, and hair, and suggests that the figure was at one time painted with vivid color. Size: 3.75" W x 6.4" H (9.5 cm x 16.3 cm); 7.3" H (18.5 cm) on included custom stand. Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private lifetime collection of Dr. Saul Tuttman and Dr. Gregory Siskind, New York, New York, USA