Description:

Pre-Columbian, Mesoamerica and South America, ca. 500 BCE to 1500 CE. A varied group of miniature pottery figures and fragments from across several cultural traditions. Included is a disembodied arm grasping an object, likely from a Veracruz figure; a mold-made Tumaco-La Tolita pendant with a face framed by concentric circles; a standing nude Jalisco woman with applied nodules along her arms; and a mold-made Costa Rican head of a simian with a tapering headdress, its features worn nearly smooth. Also present is a large head fragment from a Nayarit Chinesco figure, rendered in a highly simplified style; a Costa Rican Nicoya polychrome figure of a nude seated woman; and a Jamacoaque mold-made standing figure bearing traces of green pigment. Completing the group are a fragmentary head and torso from Tumaco-La Tolita culture and a Jalisco figure mounted atop a wooden plinth. Size of largest (Jalisco): 2.8" W x 4.4" H (7.1 cm x 11.2 cm); 8" H (20.3 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Keokuk, Iowa, USA collection, acquired in Orlando, Florida, USA in the late 1980s

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  • Condition: Many are fragments as shown. Some may have been repaired with restoration over break lines. All have age-expected weathering with nicks, chips, and abrasions to surfaces. Liberal remaining detail and scattered earthen deposits throughout.

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