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A stylised, flattened terracotta standing human figure wearing a rope-twist headband and a multi-pendant necklace. The reverse is unmodelled.

 

Pre-Columbian West Mexico, Michoacan: Circa 100 BC- 250 AD

 

Complete and intact; with some surface weathering.

Height 13.5 cms (5.3 ins)

 

Provenance: Private NYC. collection, acquired from Arte Primitivo, 1990's.

 

The pre-Columbian culture of Michoacán, Mexico was rich and diverse, with skilled artisans, a unique architecture, and a prized economy. The people of Michoacán were known as the Purépecha, or Tarascan, and their empire was second in size only to the Aztecs. The figure is a more simplified and stylised evolution of the earlier "pretty lady" figure types.

Pre-Columbian Michoacan terracotta standing figure

SKU: K533
£90.00Price
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