Sitting female figure · Mexico, West, Nayarit/Chinesco Type B · ID: 3038634
Description
fired light-beige clay, red painted surface with tan slip highlights, hollow corpulent body, nose ring and drilled hole below nose tip, shoulder pellets, opening inside the vessel hold atop the right shoulder, slightly dam.;
belongs to the Type B (“Martians”) within the Chinesco art.
The object Sitting female figure with the object ID 3038634 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 108.
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Comparing literature
Leyenaar, Ted u.a., Von Küste zu Küste, o.O. 1992, ill. 307