Bidspirit auction | Pre-Columbian Jalisco Ceramic Female Figure

Pre-Columbian Jalisco Ceramic Female Figure - Description: Large Pre-Columbian Jalisco Polychrome Ceramic Female Figure. Type: A remarkable Ameca-Etzatlán Style Jalisco slipped pottery figure. Ameca-Ezatlán type figures were characterized by elongated faces, turban-like headwear, larger facial features, and staring eyes. Figures were made to represent the people and resources that might be needed in the hereafter. Date: Protoclassic period, Circa. 100 BC - AD 250. Approx. Size: 13.5” H x 9” W x 7” D. Provenance: Prominent Private Ethnographic Collection, Estate of Paul S. Hughey, Previously on loan with the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS. References: Butterwick, Kristi. Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture From West Mexico: The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection. New York, New Haven, London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, pp. 32-33; 38–39. Richard F. Townsend, ed., Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past, Chicago, 1998, p. 129, fig. 32, cat. no. 129.